“…(Nachaegari and Bansal 2004;Rojas et al, 2012). A combination of a plastic and brittle deforming material produces a co-processed excipient with desirable attributes for tableting (Wang et al, 2015). Many co-processing methods have been employed, including spray drying (Chauhan et al, 2016;Rojas and Kumar, 2011;Sharma et al, 2015), codrying (Mshelia et al, 2015;Olowosulu et al, 2011) wet massing, spheronisation, melt extrusion (Goyanes et al, 2011), co-precipitation (Kittipongpatana and Kittipongpatana 2011), co-grinding (Adeoye and Alebiowu, 2014a;Katsuno et al, 2013), wet-, dry-and spray-granulation (Daraghmeh et al, 2010) and coprocessing by crystal coating (Vanhoorne et al, 2014) among which spray drying is the most widely used and successful strategy (Rojas et al, 2012).…”