Research Facilities
Processing equipment
- Milling, mixing, sieving
- High shear-, rotor-, wet-granulation
- Extrusion / spheronisation
- Tabletting (single punch and rotary-table tablet presses)
- Fluidized bed coating
- Pan coating
- Spray-drying
- Freeze-drying
- Hot melt extrusion
- Emulsification / homogenization
- Miniaturisation of equipment to handle smallest drug quantities
Analytical equipment
- Pharmacopoeial testing of drug products
- Drug dissolution testing (USP apparatus, Franz diffusion cells)
- Liquid chromatography (HPLC, GPC)
- Gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing
- Spectroscopy (UV-VIS, Fluorimetry, FTIR)
- Thermal analysis (DSC, TGA)
- Dynamic vapour sorption
- Mechanical properties analysis (Instron, Texture analyzer)
- Surface tension / contact angle
- Rheology and torque rheometry
- Powder testing (rheology, pharmacopoeial testing)
- Powder X-Ray Diffractometry
- Hg Porosimetry / N2 Pycnometry
- Particle size (LD, PCS, Coulter counter)
- Image and video analysis
- Microscopy and SEM
- Stability testing chambers (T, RH, light)