A new approach to achieve controlled ice nucleation of supercooled solutions during the freezing step in freeze-drying

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4409-4413

  Geidobler, Raimund ^a   Mannschedel, Stefanie ^a   Winter, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84868193345     PISSN: 00223549     EISSN: 15206017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jps.23308     Document Type: Article

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