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Roselyn Aperocho-Naranjo
Faculty, College of Pharmacy
USPF
Rheology
rheo to flow
logos science
ology the study of
is the study of the flow of materials that behave
in an interesting or unusual manner.
Unusual materials such as mayonnaise, peanut
butter, chocolate, bread dough, paints, inks, road
building aterials, cosmetics, dairy products, etc.
Rheology
The study of viscosity is of true liquids,
solutions, dilute and concentrated colloidal
systems is of much importance in this
study
It is involved in the mixing and flow of
materials, their packaging into containers,
the pouring from the bottle, extrusion from
a tube or a passage of the liquid to a
syringe needle.
Rheology
Can affect the patients acceptability of the
product, physical stability, biologic
availability, absorption rate of drugs in the
gastrointestinal tract
Influence the choice of processing
equipments in the pharmaceutical system
Two Categories of
Flow & Deformation
Newtonian (Newtonian Law of Flow)
the higher the viscosity of a liquid, the greater is the
force per unit area (shearing stress) required to
produce a certain rate of shear
Shear as a stress which is applied parallel or