PMID- 32511025 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210112 LR - 20210112 IS - 1744-7593 (Electronic) IS - 1742-5247 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 8 DP - 2020 Aug TI - Manufacturing of hybrid drug delivery systems by utilizing the fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology. PG - 1063-1068 LID - 10.1080/17425247.2020.1776260 [doi] AB - The potential of fused filament fabrication (FFF) for the administration of active pharmaceutical compounds is a recent approach to develop complex and custom-made drug delivery systems (DDSs). However, the FFF technology is characterized by certain limitations, which are associated with the nature of the process, i.e., the required mechanical properties of the feedstock, as well as the thermal stability of the incorporated polymers, excipients and active compounds. Thus, hybrid DDSs have been recently introduced, to overcome these boundaries. The concept of these systems is defined by the effective coupling of FFF with conventional manufacturing technologies, as a novel pathway to expand the available pool of raw materials and pharmaceutical applications of FFF. FAU - Eleftheriadis, Georgios K AU - Eleftheriadis GK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6111-4376 AD - Department of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Katsiotis, Christos S AU - Katsiotis CS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0154-3627 AD - Department of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Genina, Natalja AU - Genina N AD - Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Boetker, Johan AU - Boetker J AD - Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Rantanen, Jukka AU - Rantanen J AD - Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Fatouros, Dimitrios G AU - Fatouros DG AD - Department of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece. LA - eng PT - Editorial DEP - 20200608 PL - England TA - Expert Opin Drug Deliv JT - Expert opinion on drug delivery JID - 101228421 RN - 0 (Excipients) RN - 0 (Pharmaceutical Preparations) RN - 0 (Polymers) SB - IM MH - *Drug Delivery Systems MH - Excipients/chemistry MH - Pharmaceutical Preparations/*administration & dosage MH - Polymers/chemistry MH - Printing, Three-Dimensional MH - Technology OTO - NOTNLM OT - 3D printing OT - automated filling OT - biologics OT - electrospinning OT - fused filament fabrication OT - hybrid systems OT - injection molding OT - inkjet printing EDAT- 2020/06/09 06:00 MHDA- 2021/01/13 06:00 CRDT- 2020/06/09 06:00 PHST- 2020/06/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/01/13 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/06/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/17425247.2020.1776260 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2020 Aug;17(8):1063-1068. doi: 10.1080/17425247.2020.1776260. Epub 2020 Jun 8.