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Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography: A Technique to Separate Hydrophilic Polar Analytes Using Hydrophilic Beads
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2025
This video demonstrates the principle of separation of hydrophilic polar compounds using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography. This technique helps in the purification of various polar analytes, including N-glycans.
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A Protocol for the Production of Gliadin-cyanoacrylate Nanoparticles for Hydrophilic Coating
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2016
This article presents a protocol for the production of protein-based nanoparticles that changes the hydrophobic surface to hydrophilic. The produced nanoparticle is an assembly of gliadin-cyanoacrylate diblock copolymers. Spray coating with the produced nanoparticle changes the surface of target material to a hydrophilic surface.
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Synthesis of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Janus Microhydrogels for Anisotropic Thermo-responsiveness and Organophilic/Hydrophilic Loading Capability
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2016
We present a protocol to synthesize Janus microhydrogels composed entirely of the same base material, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm), with a clearly compartmentalized structure base on the phase separation of a supersaturated NIPAAm monomer solution. The synthesized Janus microhydrogels show unique properties such as anisotropic thermo-responsiveness and organophilic/hydrophilic loading capability.
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Flash NanoPrecipitation for the Encapsulation of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Compounds in Polymeric Nanoparticles
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2019
Flash NanoPrecipitation (FNP) is a scalable approach to produce polymeric core-shell nanoparticles. Lab-scale formulations for the encapsulation of hydrophobic or hydrophilic therapeutics are described.
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Preparation and Characterization of Nanoliposomes for the Entrapment of Bioactive Hydrophilic Globular Proteins
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2019
This study describes classical hydration using the thin lipid film method for nanoliposome preparation followed by nanoparticle characterization. A 47 kDa-hydrophilic and globular protein, tarin, is successfully encapsulated as a strategy to improve stability, avoid fast clearance, and promote controlled release. The method can be adapted to hydrophobic molecules encapsulation.
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Their affinity for water promotes rapid wetting when a formulation encounters aqueous fluids. This interaction can help distribute the active ingredient through the surrounding medium and support dispersion or dissolution. The resulting behavior is important when a preparation must provide consistent exposure of its drug content to water during handling, administration, or subsequent release.
Water compatibility can affect how readily a preparation becomes wetted and how its ingredients disperse or dissolve. Because these processes contribute to release behavior, the selected diluent may influence how consistently the active ingredient becomes available from a tablet, capsule, powder, or liquid formulation. This makes excipient choice relevant to overall formulation performance.
Selection should consider more than the ability to attract water. The diluent must also support the intended concentration, flow, and handling properties of the preparation while remaining compatible with consistent drug delivery. Balancing these requirements helps a formulation remain practical to manufacture without compromising dose uniformity or the desired behavior after administration.
Increasing formulation volume can make the active ingredient easier to distribute throughout a preparation, while adjusting concentration can help establish the intended composition. Their use may also improve practical flow or handling characteristics needed during preparation and manufacture. These effects are especially relevant when the active ingredient alone does not provide suitable physical properties for a consistent dosage form.
They support the manufacture of several preparation types, including tablets, capsules, powders, and liquids. Their role may differ with the dosage form: a solid preparation may require suitable flow and handling, whereas a liquid or water-exposed preparation depends more directly on wetting, dispersion, or dissolution. Thus, the same excipient principle serves different manufacturing and administration needs.
In clinical pharmaceutics, these excipients connect manufacturing requirements with drug delivery performance. A suitable choice can help maintain dose uniformity, support predictable interaction with aqueous fluids, and make administration practical across multiple dosage forms. Their selection therefore affects not only how a product is produced, but also how consistently the active ingredient is delivered to the patient.