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. 2023 Jun 16;15(6):1749. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15061749

Table 4.

The kinetic of sulfanilamide release from p(NIPAM) hydrogels.

Kinetic Model Parameter pH = 2.2 pH = 7.4
1% 1.5% 2% 2.5% 1% 1.5% 2% 2.5%
Higuchi
F = kHt1/2
kH 7.290 9.075 7.055 7.507 6.974 9.116 7.507 6.786
R2 0.714 0.488 0.794 0.736 0.782 0.634 0.742 0.882
AIC 28.418 30.737 26.540 27.944 25.975 29.600 26.974 23.841
Korsmeyer–Peppas
F = kKPtn
kKP 53.229 56.767 34.855 44.929 26.621 42.202 28.375 20.528
n 0.041 0.077 0.132 0.087 0.192 0.147 0.194 0.246
R2 0.993 0.848 0.983 0.980 0.935 0.865 0.898 0.970
AIC 15.681 27.868 18.652 19.635 23.147 27.601 25.249 20.314

kH: the constant of release at Higuchi model; R2: coefficient of determination; AIC: Akaike’s information criterion; F: the fraction of released drug in the function of time t; kKP: the constant of release at Korsmeyer-Peppas model that takes into account structural and geometrical characteristics of the dosage form; n: the exponent of release/diffusion [54,55].