Dry coating, a novel coating technology for solid pharmaceutical dosage forms

Yanfeng Luo, Jesse Zhu, Yingliang Ma, Hui Zhang

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Abstract

Dry coating is a coating technology for solid pharmaceutical dosage forms derived from powder coating of metals. In this technology, powdered coating materials are directly coated onto solid dosage forms without using any solvent, and then heated and cured to form a coat. As a result, this technology can overcome such disadvantages caused by solvents in conventional liquid coating as serious air pollution, high time- and energy-consumption and expensive operation cost encountered by liquid coating. Several dry coating technologies, including plasticizer-dry-coating, electrostatic-dry-coating, heat-dry-coating and plasticizer-electrostatic-heat-dry-coating have been developed and extensively reported. This mini-review summarized the fundamental principles and coating processes of various dry coating technologies, and thoroughly analyzed their advantages and disadvantages as well as commercialization potentials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16-22
Number of pages7
JournalInternational Journal of Pharmaceutics
Volume358
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jun 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dry coating
  • Electrostatic coating
  • Plasticizer
  • Powder coating
  • Solid pharmaceutical dosage form

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pharmaceutical Science

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