Determining Thermal Conductivity of Small Molecule Amorphous Drugs with Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Vacuum Molding Sample Preparation

Maximilian Karl, Jukka Rantanen, Thomas Rades

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Abstract

Thermal conductivity is a material specific property, which influences many aspects of pharmaceutical development, such as processing, modelling, analysis, and the development of novel formulation approaches. We have presented a method to measure thermal conductivity of small molecule organic glasses, based on a vacuum molding sample preparation technique combined with modulated differential scanning calorimetry. The method is applied to the two amorphous model compounds indomethacin and celecoxib. The measured values of below 0.2 W/m °C indicate very low thermal conductivity of the amorphous compounds, within the range of organic liquids and low conducting polymers.
Original languageEnglish
Article number670
JournalPharmaceutics
Volume11
Issue number12
Number of pages7
ISSN1999-4923
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2019

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