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Ehtezazi, T, Dempster, NM, Martin, GD, Hoath, SD and Hutchings, IM (2014) Development of High-Throughput Glass Inkjet Devices for Pharmaceutical Applications. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 103 (11). pp. 3733-3742. ISSN 1520-6017
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Abstract
The application of the inkjet method to pharmaceutical products is promising. To make this realistic, not only does the throughput of this method need to be increased, but also the components should be inert to pharmaceutical preparations. We present designs of glass‐based inkjet devices that are capable of producing droplets at high rates. To achieve this, inkjet devices from glass capillary tubes were manufactured with orifice diameters of 5, 10 and 20 μm and were actuated with diaphragm piezoelectric disks. Also, a pressure capsule was formed by creating a manifold at a distance from the orifice tip. Placing the piezoelectric disk at 0.5 mm distance from the tip allowed the formation of a jet at 3.2 MHz in certain designs, but for a short period of time because of overheating. The length of the pressure capsule, its inlet diameter, and the nozzle tip geometry were crucial to lower the required power. Actuating an inkjet device with 10 μm orifice diameter comfortably at 900 kHz and drying the droplets from 1% salbutamol sulphate solution allowed the formation of particles with diameters of 1.76 ± 0.15 μm and the geometric standard deviation of 1.08. In conclusion, optimising internal design of glass inkjet devices allowed the production of high‐throughput droplet ejectors. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association J Pharm Sci 103:3733–3742, 2014
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1115 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering |
| Divisions: | Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
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| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2017 10:25 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2022 15:23 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1002/jps.24192 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5206 |
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