In 2018, life sciences and analytical instrument makers kept up the momentum of the last few years: overall instrument sales for the 20 firms that C&EN tracks rose 6.2%. Although economic conditions ...

Characterisation of pharmaceutical systems and their behaviour on the micro-and nano-scales is essential to ensure the quality, efficacy and safety of medicines. We use innovative label-free ...

The author examines dry dispersion and outlines the related analytical method development. Across the pharmaceutical industry, laser-diffraction technology is well established for particle-size ...

A new book by Robert Thomas, principal consultant at Scientific Solutions, provides a training tool for novices and inexperienced users of plasma spectrochemistry as well as for supervisors and senior ...

Particle size analysis (Figure 1) is the preferred method for characterizing raw materials used in pharmaceuticals, setting specifications for incoming raw material in order to determine appropriate ...