Published 4 Mar 2020
Developing drug products is a progressively competitive, expensive and high-risk venture that when successful, can bring considerable humanitarian and financial reward. Malvern Panalytical’s unique range of physicochemical analysis techniques can be used to accelerate the development of pharmaceutical formulations, enabling…READ MORE >
Tags: formulation, pharmaceuticals
Published 12 Mar 2019
What are asphalt emulsions and why are they important? They are liquid asphalt cement emulsified in water. They compose of bitumen, water, and an emulsifying agent or surfactant. Asphalt emulsions are integral to the optimum mechanical properties. Modified asphalt emulsions…READ MORE >
Tags: asphalt, bitumen, DOT, emulsified, emulsifyer
Published 3 Aug 2017
Intralipid-Lipid emulsions Lipid emulsions are administered intravenously for a variety of purposes: To help feed patients with temporary difficulty in ingesting food orally For better transport of lipophilic drugs (fat-friendly active ingredient (API) which is not soluble in water) For…READ MORE >
Tags: emulsion, emulsions, flocculation, formulation, injectable
Published 18 Jul 2017
Monoclonal Antibodies – or mAbs for short Since many of these mAbs require refrigeration we had used dynamic light scattering (with a Zetasizer) to show the formation of aggregates after freeze-thaw cycles (for details see application note “Effect of storage conditions…READ MORE >
Tags: antibody, bioformulation, formulation, freeze-thaw, glycine
Published 1 Aug 2013
Yesterday we launched the Viscosizer 200, which is an innovation in automated viscosity measurement and molecular sizing using very small sample volumes. This new technology is driven by UV area imaging, and at its heart is a unique dual-pass capillary…READ MORE >
Tags: biopharmaceuticals, formulation, molecular size, size measurement, viscosity
Published 1 Nov 2012
In case you missed it! In September 2012, Malvern presented a webinar hosted by C&EN on the: “Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Proteins” Here, we talked about the most recent developments in light scattering analysis and related techniques for the…READ MORE >
Tags: dynamic light scattering, formulation, proteins, webinar
Published 5 Jul 2012
How do you make the Lincoln Memorial, the Venus de Milo, The Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China disappear? Ask a pharmaceutical formulation scientist. It is reported that around ninety percent of new chemical entities discovered by the…READ MORE >
Tags: chemical, dissolution, drug, formulation, Particle size
Published 21 Jul 2011
My eye was recently drawn to an interesting piece of research from Melbourn Scientific, in the first instance, I have to admit, because it was adorned with a beautiful shot of our Spraytec laser diffraction analyzer! The article is about…READ MORE >
Tags: automated imaging, formulation, Laser diffraction, nasal spray development, nasal sprays