Nanofibres in drug delivery (1st)

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the production of nanoscale fibres for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Nanofibres in Drug Delivery aims to outline to new researchers in the field the utility of nanofibres in drug delivery, and to explain to them how to prepare fibres in the laboratory.

The book begins witha brief discussion of the main concepts in pharmaceutical science. The authors thenintroduce the key techniques that can be used for fibre production and explainbriefly the theory behind them. They discuss the experimental implementation offibre production, starting with the simplest possible set-up and then moving onto consider more complex arrangements. As they do so, they offer advice from theirown experience of fibre production, and use examples from current literature toshow how each particular type of fibres can be applied to drug delivery. They alsoconsider how fibre production could be moved beyond the research laboratoryinto industry, discussing regulatory and scale-up aspects.