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1	Release Mechanisms of Amorphous Solid Dispersions Ruochen Yang (14228015) 07 December 2022 (has links) <p> </p> <p>As the pharmaceutical industry moves towards molecular obesity with the use of high throughput screening for identification of promising candidates, the low aqueous solubilities of new chemical entities pose significant challenges to achieving adequate oral absorption and bioavailability. Enabling formulations are often needed to address this issue. Amorphous solid dispersion (ASD), where an amorphous drug and a polymer are molecularly mixed, has gained popularity as a dissolution/solubility enhancing strategy over the years. Upon ASD dissolution, the release rate of drug is much higher than that of the neat amorphous form of the drug. More importantly, the apparent concentration of drug in the solution can exceed its amorphous solubility through the formation of a drug-rich colloidal phase in the solution, also called nanodroplets. The presence of nanodroplets has been shown to be beneficial for oral absorption and bioavailability and their formation during release is therefore desirable. However, such release profiles are only achieved at relatively low drug loadings (DLs) and release tends to drop with increasing DL. For ASDs based on polyvinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate (PVPVA), drug release drops drastically once the DL exceeds a certain value, called limit of congruency (LoC). The low DL at which the ASD demonstrates good release also presents additional challenges since it can create a pill burden for patients due to the large amount of polymer needed in the formulation. Therefore, to achieve optimal drug product performance, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms of drug release. Therefore, this thesis focuses on understanding the factors affecting, and the mechanisms of ASD drug release, as well as enhancing drug release through addition of surfactants. </p> <p>The glass transition temperature of a drug and its interaction with the polymer were identified as important factors affecting the drug release and LoC. Another phase transition occurring during ASD hydration/dissolution, amorphous-amorphous phase separation (AAPS), was shown to affect drug release from ASD significantly. During dissolution, water-induced AAPS occurs, and the initially miscible ASD separates into two phases, an insoluble drug-rich phase and a soluble water/polymer-rich phase. The formation of a continuous drug-rich phase at the ASD-solution interface was shown to be detrimental to drug release as it could act as barrier that blocked any further drug release. When the drug-rich phase formed adopted a discrete morphology or when phase separation occurred in the solution outside of the dissolving ASD matrix, good release could be achieved. Surfactants could interrupt the formation of the continuous drug-rich both kinetically and thermodynamically, improving drug release as a result. Other mechanisms of release enhancement by surfactants included increased polymer release rate, increased water ingress and plasticization. The findings in this thesis will provide insight into ASD release mechanisms, and facilitate rational excipient selection when designing ASD formulations. </p> Pharmaceutical sciences Pharmaceutical Science Drug Formulation Amorphous Systems
2	Geometry controlled phase behavior in nanowetting and jamming Mickel, Walter 30 September 2011 (has links) (PDF) This thesis is devoted to several aspects of geometry and morphology in wetting problems and hard sphere packings. First, we propose a new method to simulate wetting and slip on nanostructured substrates: a phase field model associated with a dynamical density theory approach. We showed omniphobicity, meaning repellency, no matter the chemical properties of the liquid on monovalued surfaces, i.e. surfaces without overhangs, which is in contradiction with the macroscopic Cassie-Baxter-Wenzel theory, can produce so-called We checked systematically the impact of the surface parameters on omniphobic repellency, and we show that the key ingredient are line tensions, which emerge from needle shaped surface structures. Geometrical effects have also an important influence on glassy or jammed systems, for example amorphous hard sphere systems in infinite pressure limit. Such hard sphere packings got stuck in a so-called jammed phase, and we shall demonstrate that the local structure in such systems is universal, i.e. independent of the protocol of the generation. For this, robust order parameters - so-called Minkowski tensors - are developed, which overcome robustness deficiencies of widely used order parameters. This leads to a unifying picture of local order parameters, based on geometrical principles. Furthermore, we find with the Minkowski tensor analysis crystallization in jammed sphere packs at the random closed packing point Line tension Omniphobicity Phase field model Contact angle hysteresis Hard sphere Order parameter Amorphous systems Minkowski tensors
3	Geometry controlled phase behavior in nanowetting and jamming / Effet géométriques dans les transitions de mouillage et dans la physique des empilements désordonnés Mickel, Walter 30 September 2011 (has links) Cette thèse porte sur différents aspects géométriques et morphologiques concernant des problèmes de mouillage et d'empilement de sphères. Nous proposons tout d'abord une nouvelle méthode de simulation pour étudier le mouillage et le glissement d'un liquide sur une surface nanostructurée: un modèle de champ de phase en lien avec la théorie de la fonctionnelle de la densité dynamique. Nous étudions grâce à cette méthode la possibilité de transformer une surface quelconque en surface omniphobe (c'est à dire qui repousse tous les liquides). Nous montrons que contrairement à la théorie classique de Cassie-Baxter-Wenzel, il est possible d'inverser la mouillabilité d'une surface en la texturant, et nous montrons qu'une surface monovaluée, i.e. sans constrictions, peut produire un comportement omniphobe c'est à dire repousser tous les liquides grâce à un effet de pointe. La géométrie a également un effet considérable dans les milieux vitreux ou bloqués. Les empilements aléatoires de sphères conduisent par exemple à des état bloqués ("jamming") et nous montrons que la structure locale de ces systèmes est universelle, c'est à dire indépendante de la méthode de préparation. Pour cela, nous introduisons des paramètres d'ordre - les tenseurs de Minkowski - qui suppriment les problèmes de robustesse qu'ont les paramètres d'ordre utilisés classiquement. Ces nouveaux paramètres d'ordre conduisent à une vision unifiée, basée sur des principes géométriques. Enfin, nous montrons grâce aux tenseurs de Minkowski que les empilements de sphères se mettent à cristalliser au delà du point d'empilement aléatoire le plus dense ("random close packing") / This thesis is devoted to several aspects of geometry and morphology in wetting problems and hard sphere packings. First, we propose a new method to simulate wetting and slip on nanostructured substrates: a phase field model associated with a dynamical density theory approach. We showed omniphobicity, meaning repellency, no matter the chemical properties of the liquid on monovalued surfaces, i.e. surfaces without overhangs, which is in contradiction with the macroscopic Cassie-Baxter-Wenzel theory, can produce so-called We checked systematically the impact of the surface parameters on omniphobic repellency, and we show that the key ingredient are line tensions, which emerge from needle shaped surface structures. Geometrical effects have also an important influence on glassy or jammed systems, for example amorphous hard sphere systems in infinite pressure limit. Such hard sphere packings got stuck in a so-called jammed phase, and we shall demonstrate that the local structure in such systems is universal, i.e. independent of the protocol of the generation. For this, robust order parameters - so-called Minkowski tensors - are developed, which overcome robustness deficiencies of widely used order parameters. This leads to a unifying picture of local order parameters, based on geometrical principles. Furthermore, we find with the Minkowski tensor analysis crystallization in jammed sphere packs at the random closed packing point Tension de ligne Omniphobique Champ de phase Hystéresis d'angle de contact Sphère dure Paramètre d'ordre Systèmes désordonnés Tenseur de Minkowski Line tension Omniphobicity Phase field model Contact angle hysteresis Hard sphere Order parameter Amorphous systems Minkowski tensors 530.427
4	Glättungsmechanismen beim Ionenbeschuss rauer amorpher Oberflächen / Smoothing mechanisms due to ion bombardment of rough amorphous surfaces Vauth, Sebastian 11 October 2007 (has links) No description available. 530 Physik RD RV000 RVI000 RVI210 RVI220 RVQ450 RVQ500 RVQ700 RVQ820 RVS500 RVT500 RJM000 RJM200 RJM300 RJM320 RQI000 RQI900 RQL200 RTF500 Mathematics and Natural Science Oberflächen Ionenbestrahlung Strukturentwicklung getriebene Systeme Transportphänomene amorphe Systeme Gläser Metalle Halbleiter Rastertunnelmikroskopie Molekulardynamik-Simulationen stochastische Ratengleichungen surfaces ion bombardment structure evolution driven systems transport phenomena amorphous systems glasses metals semiconductors scanning tunneling microscopy molecular dynamics simulations stochastic rate equations 33.60 33.66 33.68 33.28 33.05 33.06

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