This research is focused on the production of structures of biomedical interest using supercritical assisted processes: Supercritical freeze extraction, Supercritical gel drying and Supercritical phase separation. These ...

Purpose of the PhD thesis was to develop dedicated lipid nanostructured vectors with tailored features (in terms of size, surface charge, load capability, stimuli responsive ability and stability) through the design of ...

A methodology to reduce the complexity of the process optimization was applied to multiproduct biorefinery fed by lignocellulosic biomass. A process superstructure was built to consider alternative process pathways to ...

Controlled release systems for therapeutic drugs have received extensive attention in recent years, due to their great clinical potential. Biodegradable microspheres are well-recognized systems to control the release rate ...

The increase in dietary-intake-related illnesses, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and cancer, have made in recent years the development of health-and-wellness promoting foods a priority of ...

Changes of cohesive flow properties of powders at high temperature are observed in many industrial process units, such as fluidized bed reactors, granulators and dryers. Many authors investigated the behaviour of powders ...

Recently, the idea of valorizing industrial agro-food wastes and microalgal biomass, through an efficient recovery of their major bioactive constituents to be used as ingredients in food, feed, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ...

Industrial interest is focused on the development of new pharmaceutical and nutraceutical formulations aimed at the enhancement of bioavailability of poorly water-soluble active compounds. Various factors influence the ...

Wet granulation is a size enlargement process used in many fields, such as pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, zootecnichal, etc., due its ability to improve technological properties of the final product, compared to the powder ...

Liposomes are spherical vesicles made of a double lipidic layer that surrounds an inner aqueous core. Several methods for the preparation of liposomes have been developed in the last decades. However, these methods present ...