Lubricant excipients are substances that are added to tablet formulations to aid in the tableting process and to improve the flow of powders during the manufacturing of tablets. These excipients reduce friction and prevent the sticking of the tablet material to the surface of the die and punches, allowing for smoother tablet production and reducing the wear and tear on the tableting equipment.
Pharma Excipients
Lubricant
Excipients for Lubrication
During tablet and capsule production, lubricants are necessary to improve powder flow and reduce friction and adherence. Lubrication is a critical step since over- or underlubrication is responsible for many production and quality issues. Therefore, lubricant type, quantity, and conditions of use…
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Amorphous Solid Dispersions in Early Stage of Formulation Development: Predicting Excipient…
Excipients play an important role in the formulation of dosage forms and can be used to improve the bioavailability of a drug through physical interactions that alter the rate of dissolution of a drug. The objective of this study was to predict the effect of formulation on the dissolution rate of a…
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Impact of powder composition on processing-relevant properties of pharmaceutical materials
In this work, we studied the influence of powder composition on packing density and other processing-relevant properties of binary mixtures, including powder flowability. Binary mixtures of pharmaceutical powders with different particle size ratios, α and varying fractions of large and small…
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Development and Characterization of Liquisolid Tablets Based on Mesoporous Clays or Silicas for…
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness of mesoporous clays or silicas to develop fast-dissolving glyburide tablets based on a liquisolid approach. Selected clay (Neusilin®US2) and silica (Aeroperl®300) allowed preparation of innovative drug liquisolid systems containing…
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Simultaneous Investigation of the Liquid Transport and Swelling Performance during Tablet…
Fast disintegrating tablets have commonly been used for fast oral drug delivery to patients with swallowing difficulties. The different characteristics of the pore structure of such formulations influence the liquid transport through the tablet and hence affect the disintegration time and the…
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Compaction behavior of isomalt after roll compaction
Isomalt is a polyol derived from sucrose. Advantages of this excipient are its sweet taste, which is supposed to allow taste masking, the low glycemic and insulinemic response (Petzoldt, 1982), and the ability to be compacted directly. With regard to infantile patients, also the lack of…
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Feeding of particle-based materials in continuous solid dosage manufacturing: a material science…
The pharmaceutical industry today is experiencing a paradigm shift from batch to continuous manufacturing, which promises greater flexibility to target diverse populations, as well as more-consistent product quality to ensure best efficacy. However, shifting to continuous processing means that even…
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Characterization and comparison of deferasirox fast disintegrating tablets prepared by direct…
The aim of this study was to develop direct compressed and lyophilized fast disintegrating/dissolving tablets (FDTs) that enhanced disintegration and dissolution of deferasirox, a drug with poor solubility and bioavailability. Although there are conventional oral tablets and tablets for oral…
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A study on the impact of HPMC viscosity grade and proportion on the functional properties of…
The co-processing of multiple excipients is driven by the potential of diversifying the properties and functionality of excipients when they are combined. Bulk freeze-drying-milling is a novel secondary processing approach to develop co-processed excipients. It offers a significant advantage of…
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Solving a sticking related tablet problem by multivariate statistics and computational tomographic…
This work identifies the cause of sticking of granules in an industrial process of tableting. Retrospective multivariate statistical analysis of industrial scale batches' records (PLS, properties and manufacturing conditions of granules and tablets) identified the air flow rate in both granulation…
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