Pharmaceuticals

Thermal analysis is extensively used in pharmaceutical research, production, and quality control. The kind of test depends on whether the studied material is a small molecule or a polymer, an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) or an excipient, amorphous or crystalline.

Some examples of thermal analysis applications to this area include:

• Glass transitions

• Melting points

• Purity

• Tg and Tg’ for lyophilized material

• Detection of amorphous material

• Polymorphic forms including HyperDSC™

• Incipient-API interactions

• Residual solvent by TGA

• Thermal stability

Tg of a Lyophilized protein by Fast Scanning DSC