The thermal properties of active ingredients, excipients, and dosage forms are critical to the development, processing, and quality of pharmaceutical products. Melting behavior and phase transitions can provide important insights into material behavior, stability, and processability. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) enables rapid and practical characterization of these properties.
Using easy-to-understand examples from the pharmaceutical field, this presentation demonstrates how measurements with Anton Paar’s Julia DSC series can support thermal characterization, formulation development, incoming goods inspection, and production-oriented quality assessment. The Julia DSC is presented as a compact benchtop system that, with the Peltier-based Air Cooling Module, enables me ...