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Artificial Neural Networks Modelling the Prednisolone Nanoprecipitation in Microfluidic Reactors

Research Authors
Hany S.M. Ali, Nicholas Blagden, Peter York, Amir Amani, Toni Brook
Research Department
Research Journal
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Vol. 37
Research Year
2009
Research Member
Research Abstract

This study employs artificial neural networks (ANNs) to create a model to identify relationships between variables affecting drug nanoprecipitation using microfluidic reactors. The input variables examined were saturation levels of prednisolone, solvent and antisolvent flow rates, microreactor inlet angles and internal diameters, while particle size was the single output. ANNs software was used to analyse a set of data obtained by random selection of the variables. The developed model was then assessed using a separate set of validation data and provided good agreement with the observed results. The antisolvent flow rate was found to have the dominant role on determining final particle size.