著者

Agam R. Sheth David J.W. Grant

出版者

Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation

雑誌

KONA Powder and Particle Journal (ISSN:02884534)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.36-48, 2005 (Released:2014-03-29)

参考文献数

165

被引用文献数

18 37

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The majority of drug products are solid dosage forms, most of which contain the drug substance in the crystalline state. This review considers the forces responsible for crystal packing, the various types of pharmaceutical crystals, and the methods used to determine the structure of pharmaceutical crystals. These topics provide background for the main thrust, which focuses on the importance of studying the structure of pharmaceutical crystals with particular stress on phase changes of crystal forms of drugs during pharmaceutical processing and implications of different solid forms of drugs on its mechanical properties. The present review does not consider pharmaceutical co-crystals, which could be the subject of another review.