Coating processes – Particles – flakes – or granules coated or encapsulated – Solid encapsulation process utilizing an emulsion or...
Patent
1987-05-01
1989-08-29
Lovering, Richard D.
Coating processes
Particles, flakes, or granules coated or encapsulated
Solid encapsulation process utilizing an emulsion or...
264 43, 264 432, 264 46, 424462, 424497, 42721336, 42840222, 42840224, 514963, A61K 956, A61K 958, B01J 1302
Patent
active
048616273
ABSTRACT:
A single step method for preparation of multi-layer polymeric delivery systems. Any two or three different degradable or non-degradable polymers which are not soluble in each other at a particular concentration, as dictated by their phase diagram, can be used. The multi-layer microcapsules produced by the method are distinguished by extremely uniform dimensioned layers of polymer and actual incorporation of the substance to be delivered into the polymer layers.
In the preferred embodiment of the method, two polymers are dissolved in a volatile organic solvent, the substance to be encapsulated is dispersed or dissolved in the polymer solution, the mixture is suspended in an aqueous solution and stirred, and the solvent is slowly evaporated, creating microspheres with an inner core formed by one polymer and an outer layer formed by the second polymer. In another embodiment one polymer may be formed within a layer of the other polymer by increasing the rate of evaporation of the volatile solvent.
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Langer Robert S.
Mathiowitz Edith
Lovering Richard D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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