Inexpensive Apparatus for Fabricating Microspheres for 5-Fluorouracil Controlled Release Systems

Table 2

Size of chitosan microspheres.

Manufacturing parameters	Diameter (mm)	Volume (mm^3)	Surface area; (mm^2)	Sphericity
IR1-2.5	0.993 ± 0.018	0.513 ± 0.028	3.568 ± 0.120	0.932 ± 0.011
IR1-5.0	0.776 ± 0.047	0.247 ± 0.042	2.442 ± 0.093	0.880 ± 0.043
IR1-7.5	0.615 ± 0.031	0.123 ± 0.018	1.558 ± 0.263	0.878 ± 0.036
IR1-10.0	0.437 ± 0.044	0.045 ± 0.013	1.040 ± 0.497	0.795 ± 0.105
IR2-2.5	0.987 ± 0.037	0.505 ± 0.058	3.483 ± 0.240	0.938 ± 0.004
IR2-5.0	0.669 ± 0.010	0.157 ± 0.007	1.839 ± 0.303	0.881 ± 0.072
IR2-7.5	0.494 ± 0.020	0.063 ± 0.007	0.908 ± 0.073	0.920 ± 0.033
IR2-10.0	0.514 ± 0.098	0.077 ± 0.045	1.100 ± 0.298	0.870 ± 0.054
IR3-2.5	0.832 ± 0.019	0.302 ± 0.021	2.480 ± 0.100	0.937 ± 0.005
IR3-5.0	0.634 ± 0.051	0.135 ± 0.033	1.485 ± 0.322	0.928 ± 0.025
IR3-7.5	0.560 ± 0.016	0.092 ± 0.008	1.254 ± 0.080	0.887 ± 0.043
IR3-10.0	0.579 ± 0.015	0.102 ± 0.008	1.329 ± 0.103	0.892 ± 0.023