Ultrasound Cavitation as a Green Processing Technique in the Design and Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Nanoemulsions in Drug Delivery System

Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 153-208

  Tang, Siah Ying ^a   Tan, Khang Wei ^a   Sivakumar, Manickam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Microbubbles; Nanoemulsion; Nanotechnology; Pharmaceuticals; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886142232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118287705.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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