Description:This highly praised book presents an in-depth analysis of physical and chemical properties and applications of aqueous-based polymeric coatings-covering coated dosage forms, film defects, and polymer characterization. New chapters on plastisizers and their applications in pharmaceutical coatings, adhesion of polymeric films to solid substrates, and the influence of pigments on properties of the polymeric coating systems are included in this Third Edition. Additionally, this title provides new material on polymer interactions with drugs and excipients and physical aging of polymeric films.