Freeze-drying, in the past popular in the food industry, has more recently been adopted by the pharmaceutical industry as a standard method for the production of stable solid preparations. Freeze-drying of Pharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals is the first book to specifically describe this process[...]
This book describes the technology of freeze-drying with particular emphasis on the properties of the material to be processed, pre-freezing (formulation) and post-drying (stability and shelf life). Materials science principles of glasses, as applied to the study of dried, mainly protein-based bioph[...]