Printing Drugs onto Nails for Effective Treatment of Onychomycosis

• Main Authors: Thomas D. Pollard (Author), Margherita Bonetti (Author), Adam Day (Author), Simon Gaisford (Author), Mine Orlu (Author), Abdul W. Basit (Author), Sudaxshina Murdan (Author), Alvaro Goyanes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Inkjet printing (IJP) is an emerging technology for the precision dosing of medicines. We report, for the first time, the printing of the antifungal drug terbinafine hydrochloride directly onto nails for the treatment of onychomycosis. A commercial cosmetic nail printer was modified by removing the...