Effect of Pullulan as Additive to the Synthetic Polymeric Coating Blend Eudragit® NM-L55 on the Properties of the Resulting Films.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of pullulan as additive to Eudragit® NM-L55 blend film for modification of the resulting film properties with regard to future drug release studies. Films of the plain polymers as well as of those of their blends at different ratios were prepared by an aqueous casting method. Infrared, mechanical, thermogravimetric, water vapor permeance and swelling index studies were performed with blend films of Eudragit® NM-L55 and pullulan.