Indepth Drug delivery

摘要

The pharmaceutical industry is eyeing up the potential of multifunctional printing. Despite the fundamental nature of the team's work, there is nevertheless a high level of industrial interest, and some of it from quite unexpected quarters. Indeed, while the centre's focus on printed electronics remains a major driver, it is also undertaking work for the Pharmaceuticals industry, which, said when polymers [you can't melt them and then jet them], you might want to jet the monomers, which are often very fluid. You can jet two monomers and a catalyst and at the point at where they drop together you can get in-situ polymerisation," Hague explained.