Pharmaceutical applications
Polymers used for capsule shell composition
– Charged polypeptides and proteins
– gelatin, albumin, polylysine, polyglutamic acid
– Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, oligonucleotides)
– polysaccharides: natural and modified with sulfur and
aminogroups (chitosan, alginate, dextran and its derivatives)
– synthetic charged polymers
– thickness is controlled in nanometer range