The Applications of Textile Technologies in Pharmaceutics

OBJECTIVE To introduce the applications of textile technologies in pharmaceutics. METHODS Review the current status of the applications of textile technologies in pharmaceutics according to the recent literatures, especially the advances of preparing medicated nano-fibers by electrospinning. RESULTS All the textile technologies can be employed to prepare medicated fibers with excellent controlled-release characteristics. The electrospinning, which is one of the current research focuses, can fabricate medicated nanofibers via a simple process.CONCLUSION The applications of textile technologies in pharmaceutics have a bright future, and have some challenges to be faced as well.