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DRYING TECHNOLOGY
卷 22, 期 8, 页码 2009-2021出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1081/DRT-200032717
关键词
freeze-drying; freezing; ice crystal morphology; annealing; frozen pharmaceutical matrix
In the freeze-drying process, the freezing step is one of the most important steps which determines the texture of the frozen material and, consequently, the final morphological characteristics of the freeze-dried material and its biological activity and its stability. As a matter of fact, the parameters of the freezing protocol have a direct effect on the pore size distribution and on the pore connectivity of the porous network of the freeze-dried matrix. Thus, the ice crystal morphology determines indirectly the mass and the heat transfer rates through the dry layer and, consequently, the freezing parameters have a strong influence on the total duration of the primary and secondary sublimation steps. The main objective of this study was to adapt and to develop a new optical direct microscopy method, based on the reflected flux differences, with episcopic axial lighting to characterize the structure of the different phases of a standard pharmaceutical matrix used for pharmaceutical proteins freeze-drying. First, the results obtained have been validated by another independent method, the scanning electron microscopy, carried out with freeze-dried samples. Finally, this technique has been principally used to investigate the effects of the freezing conditions on the ice crystal structure characterized by the distribution of the ice crystals mean sizes. Moreover, the influence of annealing treatment on ice crystal mean diameter and primary drying times has been also investigated.
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