Computational and experimental investigation of needle-shaped crystal breakage

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Volumn 407, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 12-20

  Grof, Zdeněk ^a   Schoellhammer, Carl M ^b   Rajniak, Pavol ^b   Štěpánek, František ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakage kernel; Daughter length distribution; DEM; Fragmentation; Population balance modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; LIQUID; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILTRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 79952314128     PISSN: 03785173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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