Nano- and Microfabrication Techniques in Drug Delivery, 2023 Recent Developments and Future Prospects Advanced Clinical Pharmacy - Research, Development and Practical Applications Series, Vol. 2

New materials and manufacturing techniques are evolving with the potential to address the challenges associated with the manufacture of medicinal products that will teach new tricks to old drugs. Nano- and microfabrication techniques include manufacturing methods such as additive manufacturing, lithography, micro-moulding, spray drying, and supercritical fluids among many others. The increasing resolution of new techniques allow researchers to produce objects with micrometric resolutions. This book follows a consecutive order, beginning with a background in the current field and limitations in the manufacturing of different pharmaceutical products, moving on the classification of each method by providing recent examples, and future prospective on a variety of traditional and new Nano and microfabrication techniques. A focus on the materials used to prepare these systems and their biocompatibility, including applied topics such as clinical applications and regulatory aspects also covered, offering the reader a holistic view of this rapidly growing field.

1. Conducting polymers as drug release systems.- 2. Electrospinning for drug delivery applications.- 3. Melt-electrospinning and electrowriting for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.- 4. Pharmaceutical Spray Drying.- 5. Vat photopolymerization 3D printing for drug delivery applications.- 6. Semi-solid extrusion 3D printing for the development of dosage forms for special patient groups.- 7. Binder-Jetting Powder bed 3D‐printing for the fabrication of drug delivery systems.- 8. 3D printing for localized cancer therapy.- 9. 4D Printing in Pharmaceutics & Biomedical Applications.- 10. Lithography in Drug-Delivery.- 11. Micro-moulding and its application to drug delivery.- 12. Supercritical Fluids: A Promising Technique in Pharmaceutics.- 13. Microfluidics as a tool for the synthesis of advanced drug delivery systems.- 14. Nanofluidic Technologies for Drug Screening and Drug Delivery.- 15. Nanoparticles at the stage of clinical trials.- 16. Nasal drug delivery systems for thetreatment of diseases of the central nervous system and tuberculosis.- 17. Regulatory aspects and barriers in using ground-breaking technologies. 

Brings together technical, clinical, regulatory and industrial perspectives Provides future prospective and includes the potential clinical applications of nano/microfabrication technologies Appeals to a broad readership, such as materials scientists, pharmaceutical engineers, clinicians and regulatory experts