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Bharatam PV, Valanju OR, Wani AA, Dhaked DK. Importance of tautomerism in drugs. Drug Discov Today 2023; 28:103494. [PMID: 36681235 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2023.103494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Tautomerism is an important phenomenon exhibited by many drugs. As we discuss in this review, identifying the different tautomers of drugs and exploring their importance in the mechanisms of drug action are integral components of current drug discovery. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), Raman, and terahertz spectroscopic techniques, as well as X-ray diffraction, are useful for exploring drug tautomerism. Quantum chemical methods, in association with pharmacoinformatics tools, are being used to evaluate tautomeric preferences in terms of energy effects. Desmotropy (i.e., tautomeric polymorphism) of the drugs is particularly important in drug delivery studies.
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- Prasad V Bharatam
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India
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- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Kolkata, Chunilal Bhawan, 168 Maniktala Main Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700054, India
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Valenti S, Cazorla C, Romanini M, Tamarit JL, Macovez R. Eutectic Mixture Formation and Relaxation Dynamics of Coamorphous Mixtures of Two Benzodiazepine Drugs. Pharmaceutics 2023; 15:pharmaceutics15010196. [PMID: 36678825 PMCID: PMC9861849 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15010196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The formation of coamorphous mixtures of pharmaceuticals is an interesting strategy to improve the solubility and bioavailability of drugs, while at the same time enhancing the kinetic stability of the resulting binary glass and allowing the simultaneous administration of two active principles. In this contribution, we describe kinetically stable amorphous binary mixtures of two commercial active pharmaceutical ingredients, diazepam and nordazepam, of which the latter, besides being administered as a drug on its own, is also the main active metabolite of the other in the human body. We report the eutectic equilibrium-phase diagram of the binary mixture, which is found to be characterized by an experimental eutectic composition of 0.18 molar fraction of nordazepam, with a eutectic melting point of Te = 395.4 ± 1.2 K. The two compounds are barely miscible in the crystalline phase. The mechanically obtained mixtures were melted and supercooled to study the glass-transition and molecular-relaxation dynamics of amorphous mixtures at the corresponding concentration. The glass-transition temperature was always higher than room temperature and varied linearly with composition. The Te was lower than the onset of thermal decomposition of either compound (pure nordazepam decomposes upon melting and pure diazepam well above its melting point), thus implying that the eutectic liquid and glass can be obtained without any degradation of the drugs. The eutectic glass was kinetically stable against crystallization for at least a few months. The relaxation processes of the amorphous mixtures were studied by dielectric spectroscopy, which provided evidence for a single structural (α) relaxation, a single Johari-Goldstein (β) relaxation, and a ring-inversion conformational relaxation of the diazepinic ring, occurring on the same timescale in both drugs. We further characterized both the binary mixtures and pure compounds by FTIR spectroscopy and first-principles density functional theory (DFT) simulations to analyze intermolecular interactions. The DFT calculations confirm the presence of strong attractive forces within the heteromolecular dimer, leading to large dimer interaction energies of the order of -0.1 eV.
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Drug-Biopolymer Dispersions: Morphology- and Temperature- Dependent (Anti)Plasticizer Effect of the Drug and Component-Specific Johari-Goldstein Relaxations. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23052456. [PMID: 35269593 PMCID: PMC8910109 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Amorphous molecule-macromolecule mixtures are ubiquitous in polymer technology and are one of the most studied routes for the development of amorphous drug formulations. For these applications it is crucial to understand how the preparation method affects the properties of the mixtures. Here, we employ differential scanning calorimetry and broadband dielectric spectroscopy to investigate dispersions of a small-molecule drug (the Nordazepam anxiolytic) in biodegradable polylactide, both in the form of solvent-cast films and electrospun microfibres. We show that the dispersion of the same small-molecule compound can have opposite (plasticizing or antiplasticizing) effects on the segmental mobility of a biopolymer depending on preparation method, temperature, and polymer enantiomerism. We compare two different chiral forms of the polymer, namely, the enantiomeric pure, semicrystalline L-polymer (PLLA), and a random, fully amorphous copolymer containing both L and D monomers (PDLLA), both of which have lower glass transition temperature (Tg) than the drug. While the drug has a weak antiplasticizing effect on the films, consistent with its higher Tg, we find that it actually acts as a plasticizer for the PLLA microfibres, reducing their Tg by as much as 14 K at 30%-weight drug loading, namely, to a value that is lower than the Tg of fully amorphous films. The structural relaxation time of the samples similarly depends on chemical composition and morphology. Most mixtures displayed a single structural relaxation, as expected for homogeneous samples. In the PLLA microfibres, the presence of crystalline domains increases the structural relaxation time of the amorphous fraction, while the presence of the drug lowers the structural relaxation time of the (partially stretched) chains in the microfibres, increasing chain mobility well above that of the fully amorphous polymer matrix. Even fully amorphous homogeneous mixtures exhibit two distinct Johari-Goldstein relaxation processes, one for each chemical component. Our findings have important implications for the interpretation of the Johari-Goldstein process as well as for the physical stability and mechanical properties of microfibres with small-molecule additives.
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Valenti S, Del Valle L, Yousefzade O, Macovez R, Franco L, Puiggalí J. Chloramphenicol loaded polylactide melt electrospun scaffolds for biomedical applications. Int J Pharm 2021; 606:120897. [PMID: 34293473 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2021.120897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Melt electrospinning of polylactide (PLA) loaded with chloramphenicol (CAM) has been performed and characteristics of fibers, physical properties of scaffolds, CAM release behavior, antibacterial properties and biocompatibility have been evaluated. The interest of CAM loaded samples is nowadays enhanced for biomedical applications since this antibiotic has been demonstrated to be efficient for the treatment of cancer. Melt electrospinning has been selected as an ideal preparation process because it avoids the use of toxic solvents which are harmful to the environment and could be problematic for biomedical applications. The electrospinning process rendered fibers with a relatively large diameter (between 20 μm and 40 μm depending on the load) and minimum polymer degradation. Characteristics of melt electrospun scaffolds were also compared with those prepared by solution electrospinning. Differences consisted in a more sustained release and a higher biocompatibility for the melt processed samples. Bactericide effect was evaluated as an evidence of the maintenance of the CAM bioactivity after melt processing at high temperature and the slower release caused by the relatively high diameter of the constitutive fibers. Since pure CAM showed thermal degradation at temperatures relatively close to the PLA melting temperature, a complete analysis of the degradation process of pure CAM as well as of PLA samples loaded with CAM was performed. The Invariant Kinetic Parameters method allowed determining an initial decomposition step that followed an autoaccelatory Avrami model, and then an autocatalytic decomposition reaction took place for conversions higher than 50%. Dispersion in the PLA matrix enhances the thermal stability of the antibiotic, with an onset temperature of degradation that was higher by 16 °C in the melt-electrospun fibers than in the liquid state of pure CAM.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sofia Valenti
- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE, c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Spain
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- Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE, c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Spain
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE, c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE, c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Spain.
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- Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE, c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Spain.
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Valenti S, Barrio M, Negrier P, Romanini M, Macovez R, Tamarit JL. Comparative Physical Study of Three Pharmaceutically Active Benzodiazepine Derivatives: Crystalline versus Amorphous State and Crystallization Tendency. Mol Pharm 2021; 18:1819-1832. [PMID: 33689364 PMCID: PMC8594866 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
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Chemical derivatization and amorphization
are two possible strategies
to improve the solubility and bioavailability of drugs, which is a
key issue for the pharmaceutical industry. In this contribution, we
explore whether both strategies can be combined by studying how small
differences in the molecular structure of three related pharmaceutical
compounds affect their crystalline structure and melting point (Tm), the relaxation dynamics in the amorphous
phase, and the glass transition temperature (Tg), as well as the tendency toward recrystallization. Three
benzodiazepine derivatives of almost same molecular mass and structure
(Diazepam, Nordazepam and Tetrazepam) were chosen as model compounds.
Nordazepam is the only one that displays N–H···O
hydrogen bonds both in crystalline and amorphous phases, which leads
to a significantly higher Tm (by 70–80
K) and Tg (by 30–40 K) compared
to those of Tetrazepam and Diazepam (which display similar values
of characteristic temperatures). The relaxation dynamics in the amorphous
phase, as determined experimentally using broadband dielectric spectroscopy,
is dominated by a structural relaxation and a Johari–Goldstein
secondary relaxation, both of which scale with the reduced temperature T/Tg. The kinetic fragility
index is very low and virtually the same (mp ≈ 32) in all three compounds. Two more secondary relaxations
are observed in the glass state: the slower of the two has virtually
the same relaxation time and activation energy in all three compounds,
and is assigned to the inter-enantiomer conversion dynamics of the
flexible diazepine heterocycle between isoenergetic P and M conformations.
We tentatively assign the fastest secondary relaxation, present only
in Diazepam and Tetrazepam, to the rigid rotation of the fused diazepine–benzene
double ring relative to the six-membered carbon ring. Such motion
appears to be largely hindered in glassy Nordazepam, possibly due
to the presence of the hydrogen bonds. Supercooled liquid Tetrazepam
and Nordazepam are observed to crystallize into their stable crystalline
form with an Avrami exponent close to unity indicating unidimensional
growth with only sporadic nucleation, which allows a direct assessment
of the crystal growth rate. Despite the very similar growth mode,
the two derivatives exhibit very different kinetics for a fixed value
of the reduced temperature and thus of the structural relaxation time,
with Nordazepam displaying slower growth kinetics. Diazepam does not
instead display any tendency toward recrystallization over short periods
of time (even close to Tm). Both these
observations in three very similar diazepine derivatives provide direct
evidence that the kinetics of recrystallization of amorphous pharmaceuticals
is not a universal function, at least in the supercooled liquid phase,
of the structural or the conformational relaxation dynamics, and it
is not simply correlated with related parameters such as the kinetic
fragility or activation barrier of the structural relaxation. Only
the crystal growth rate, and not the nucleation rate, shows a correlation
with the presence or absence of hydrogen bonding.
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- Sofia Valenti
- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, Catalonia 08019, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, Catalonia 08019, Spain
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- Université Bordeaux, Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, UMR 5798, 351 Cours de la Libération, Talence F-33400, France
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, Catalonia 08019, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, Catalonia 08019, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, Catalonia 08019, Spain
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Crystalline tetrazepam as a case study on the volume change on melting of molecular organic compounds. Int J Pharm 2021; 593:120124. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.120124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Valenti S, Yousefzade O, Puiggalí J, Macovez R. Phase-selective conductivity enhancement and cooperativity length in PLLA/TPU nanocomposite blends with carboxylated carbon nanotubes. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Valenti S, Diaz A, Romanini M, del Valle LJ, Puiggalí J, Tamarit JL, Macovez R. Amorphous binary dispersions of chloramphenicol in enantiomeric pure and racemic poly-lactic acid: Morphology, molecular relaxations, and controlled drug release. Int J Pharm 2019; 568:118565. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Romanini M, Rodriguez S, Valenti S, Barrio M, Tamarit JL, Macovez R. Nose Temperature and Anticorrelation between Recrystallization Kinetics and Molecular Relaxation Dynamics in Amorphous Morniflumate at High Pressure. Mol Pharm 2019; 16:3514-3523. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Michela Romanini
- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Campus Diagonal-Besòs, Av. Eduard Maristany 10-14, E-08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Yousefzade O, Valenti S, Puiggalí J, Garmabi H, Macovez R. Segmental relaxation and partial crystallization of chain-extended Poly(l
-lactic acid) reinforced with carboxylated carbon nanotube. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.24774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Omid Yousefzade
- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology; Amirkabir University of Technology; Tehran Iran
- Chemical Engineering Department and Barcelona Research, Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE; c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, E-08019 Spain
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- Chemical Engineering Department and Barcelona Research, Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE; c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, E-08019 Spain
- Department de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE; c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, E-08019 Spain
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- Chemical Engineering Department and Barcelona Research, Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE; c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, E-08019 Spain
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- Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology; Amirkabir University of Technology; Tehran Iran
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- Department de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est-EEBE; c/Eduard Maristany 10-14, Barcelona, E-08019 Spain
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