Crystal Structure and Properties of Multicomponent Pharmaceutical Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 2262
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crystallography; structure analysis; pharmaceutical crystals; phase transition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research or review articles to this Special Issue that focuses on the “Crystal Structure and Properties of Multicomponent Pharmaceutical Materials”.
Multicomponent crystals of pharmaceutical materials include salts, cocrystals, and hydrates/solvates of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Recently, more sophisticated multicomponent forms of salt-cocrystals, ionic-cocrystals, and drug-drug salts/cocrystals have attracted much attention. The exploration of multicomponent crystals of pharmaceutical materials continues gaining interest in the pharmaceutical field due to the ability of crystals to modulate a broad range of physicochemical properties of the parent API, such as solubility, dissolution rate, stability, hygroscopicity, tabletability, permeability, and palatability. A crystal structure analysis plays an important role in addressing the key information in rationalizing the change in the physicochemical properties of multicomponent crystals.
This Special Issue on the “Crystal Structure and Properties of Multicomponent Pharmaceutical Materials” aims to highlight theoretical and experimental approaches to screening, structural analyses, physicochemical properties characterization, rationalization structure-property relationships, as well as the application of pharmaceutical multicomponent crystals. We encourage the submission of studies on new crystal structures and a characterization of the physicochemical properties of salts, cocrystals, hydrates/solvates, and their interdisciplinary forms of pharmaceutical multicomponent materials.
Contributions from both the industry and academia are welcome.
Dr. Hidehiro Uekusa
Dr. Yuda Prasetya Nugraha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical crystals
- multicomponent crystals
- salts
- co-crystals
- solvates
- physicochemical properties
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