Solid-State Pharmaceutics

Catalog description

Most of the drug molecules with either large or small molecular weights are produced and stored as solid materials. The characteristics of these pharmaceutical solids can affect solubility, dissolution, stability, flow properties, compressibility and hygroscopicity. This course will provide the students with a wide range of studies on pharmaceutical solids. This will include the definition of a solid, chemical bonding in solids, determination of their physical properties including polymorphs and pseudo polymorphs, physical transformations between polymorphs and solvates, chemical reactions in solid-state and solid-solid reactions in pharmaceutical products and process.