Quantachrome Instruments Textural Properties Of Pharmaceuticals: Significance Of Surface Area, Pore Size, Density & Flowability

Successful pharmaceutical solid formulations rely on much more than just the pharmacological effectiveness of the active ingredient. Physical properties have a tremendous impact on blending, tableting and bioavailability for example. Powder particle size of starting materials and tablet hardness and crush strength of final product are known to be of great importance and therefore extensively measured. However there’s more to proper material selection and processing than just characterizing the end members as it were. Textural properties such as surface area, porosity, pore size and density are equally important and can be applied to intermediate materials such as blended powders and granules. This webinar will introduce the reasons why these textural and related properties are of interest, how to get the best quality data from a measurement and what the results mean.