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Table 7.2: DSC findings <strong>of</strong> all APIs and polymers <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> general in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>of</strong> allpolymers and active subtancesCompoundHeat <strong>of</strong> FusionMeltingpeaksGl<strong>as</strong>s transitionMolecular(H) J/g( o C)(Tg) o Cweight/volume(cm 3 )PRP 126.25 166.65 34.74 295.34/269.96DPD 124.59 170.83 14.80 291.35/284.24L100 - - 164.38 12500/100000L100-55 - - 83.97 320000/271186Table 7.3: Calculation <strong>of</strong> F–H interaction parameter <strong>of</strong> different Drug–Polymer extruded<strong>for</strong>mulationsForm. Volume Fractions (ø) Nishi-Wang () Hildebrand – Scott ()RPR/L100 10:90 -0.2240 -2.89 X 10 -4PRP/L100-55 10:90 -0.0826 -3.70 X 10 -5DPD/L100 10:90 -0.2099 -1.10 X 10 -4DPD/L100-55 10:90 -0.0774 -6.7 X 10 -53.3 SEM and particle size analysisSEM w<strong>as</strong> used to examine <strong>the</strong> surface morphology <strong>of</strong> all extruded <strong>for</strong>mulations <strong>as</strong>depicted in Fig 1. The particles size range <strong>for</strong> all extruded materials varied majorly from 50-200µm after optimizing <strong>the</strong> grinding process. The extrudates containing both L100 and L100-55 exhibited no drug crystals on <strong>the</strong> extrudate surface after <strong>extrusion</strong> with PRP (Fig 7.1a-b).Similarly, no DPD crystals were observed on <strong>the</strong> surface <strong>of</strong> polymeric extrudates in bothpolymeric systems. The particle size distribution depicted in Fig. 7.2 shows particle sizes <strong>for</strong>135 | P a g e

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