Malvern Experts Bring Advanced Near Infrared Chemical Imaging

Malvern, UK - Experts from Malvern Instruments' analytical imaging team will present advanced methods and new techniques using near infrared chemical imaging (NIR-CI) at this year's Federation of Chemical and Spectroscopy Societies annual meeting. FACSS 2008 (Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2008, Reno NV) aims to bring ‘tomorrow's analytical sciences today', to analytical chemists and spectroscopists, and all three presentations from Malvern will certainly meet that goal.

Malvern's Technical Director Dr E. Neil Lewis, and colleagues will present: Hybrid Analytical Approaches: Simultaneous Physical and Chemical Characterization as a Tool for Pharmaceutical Quality by Design at the Charles Mann Award Session. This paper describes a new technique for combining morphological and chemical information in a single measurement.

Other Malvern specialists will give papers on; Chemical and Morphological Imaging of Pharmaceutical Products: Measuring the Impact of Process Conditions on Finished Tablets at the Vibrational Spectroscopy, Chemical Imaging and QbD session, and Advanced Methods Characterizing Spatial Heterogeneity in Chemical Imaging Data Analysis as part of the session covering Chemometrics Along Spatial and Chemical Dimensions.

Malvern Instruments' SyNIRgi Near Infrared Chemical Imaging (NIR-CI) systems, coupled with the ISys data analysis software, enables the quantitative and spatial identification of chemical species in a sample. NIR-CI is a non-destructive technique that combines traditional near infrared spectroscopy with microscopic and macroscopic imaging. NIR-CI data supports root cause analysis of manufacturing issues, the design and manufacture of products with superior performance and reduction of issues associated with product scale-up.

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Particle size distribution, particle shape information, zeta potential, molecular weight, chemical composition, and bulk materials properties can all be determined with instruments from the Malvern range. The company's laboratory, at-line, on-line and in-line solutions are proven in sectors as diverse as cement production and pharmaceutical drug discovery.

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