Systematic characterization of drug release profiles from finite-sized hydrogels

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5387-5402

  Casault, Sébastien ^a   Slater, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Drug delivery; Exact enumeration; Hydrogel; Power law; Weibull

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DOSAGE; FARM BUILDINGS; HYDROGELS; MECHANISMS; POLYMER BLENDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

(MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS; DRUG RELEASES; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; ELSEVIER (CO); EXACT ENUMERATIONS; FITTING PARAMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MOLECULAR TRANSPORT; OBSTACLE DENSITIES; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; RELEASE PROFILES; SYSTEMATIC (CO); SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERIZATION; TIME-DEPENDENT; WEIBULL; WEIBULL FUNCTIONS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 47649085029     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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