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Extraction of Plant-based Capsules for Microencapsulation Applications
Published on: November 9, 2016
A new direct compression mechanism of structural transition in Poria cocos extract composite particles
Z W Xiong1, B Yang1, Y X Zhao1
1State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211198, PR China.
Abstract:
The structural transition to generate amorphous translucent grains in Poria cocos dry extract (PCE) composite particles was found and studied as a new direct compression mechanism. The pressure and displacement sensing techniques were used to obtained stress-strain profiles during compression. The Exponential function, Kawakita model, Shapiro model and Heckel model were used to analysis mechanical properties of powders. 12 parameters derived from compression models and powder physical properties were applied to partial least squares method (PLS) for analyzing powder compression mechanism. It was found that only the oven-dried PCE composite particles undergoes the structural transition and generate translucent grains scattered and embedded in tablet, and these tablets have excellent mechanical stability. The structural transition in plant dry extract as the PCE composite particles could be exploited to improve powder compression and tabletability.
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