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New characterization measures of pore shape and connectivity applied to coatings used for controlled drug release
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of G.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioeconomy and Health, Agriculture and Food. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5956-9934
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioeconomy and Health, Agriculture and Food. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of G.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9979-5488
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2021 (English)In: Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ISSN 0022-3549, E-ISSN 1520-6017, Vol. 110, no 7, p. 2753-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Pore geometry characterization-methods are important tools for understanding how pore structure influences properties such as transport through a porous material. Bottlenecks can have a large influence on transport and related properties. However, existing methods only catch certain types of bottleneck effects caused by variations in pore size. We here introduce a new measure, geodesic channel strength, which captures a different type of bottleneck effect caused by many paths coinciding in the same pore. We further develop new variants of pore size measures and propose a new way of visualizing 3-D characterization results using layered images. The new measures together with existing measures were used to characterize and visualize properties of 3-D FIB-SEM images of three leached ethyl-cellulose/hydroxypropyl-cellulose films. All films were shown to be anisotropic, and the strongest anisotropy was found in the film with lowest porosity. This film had very tortuous paths and strong geodesic channel-bottlenecks, while the paths through the other two films were relatively straight with well-connected pore networks. The geodesic channel strength was shown to give important new visual and quantitative insights about connectivity, and the new pore size measures provided useful information about anisotropies and inhomogeneities in the pore structures. The methods have been implemented in the freely available software MIST. 

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Elsevier B.V. , 2021. Vol. 110, no 7, p. 2753-
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-52835DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2021.02.024Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85103101944OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-52835DiVA, id: diva2:1546866
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Funding details: Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning, SSF, AM13-0066; Funding details: VINNOVA; Funding details: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse, 20012.0067; Funding details: Vetenskapsrådet, VR, 2016-04187; Funding text 1: We thank Aila Särkkä and everyone involved in the SSF project for valuable feedback. We also appreciate the feedback given at workshops organized by the Chalmers center SuMo Biomaterials and within the project COSIMA, both funded by Vinnova. Funding: This work was supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research [grant number AM13-0066 ], the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation [grant number 20012.0067 ], and the Swedish Research Council [grant number 2016-04187 ].

Available from: 2021-04-23 Created: 2021-04-23 Last updated: 2023-05-26Bibliographically approved

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