New Insights into Thermal Behaviour

Mettler Toledo and Bruker Optics have developed a new hyphenated technique for simultaneous thermal and spectral analysis. SDSC - Spectral Differential Scanning Calorimetry - provides a new method for gaining insight into material behaviour.

Launched in June at a seminar at the Bruker Optics facilities in Coventry, this unique technique speeds up the development process by reducing the time needed for sample preparation, batch cycles and data collection.

Hyphenated techniques are widely acknowledged for their ability to provide invaluable insights into a range of material behaviour. This latest, powerful technique integrates FTNIR/Raman and Differential Scanning Calorimetry, delivering enhanced information across a wide range of applications.

Thermal and spectral analysis is conducted routinely to characterise a large range of materials and compounds. However, tests are usually conducted independently on separate samples where comparison of essentially the same material can provide conflicting results. Now, thanks to the new collaboration and the complete integration of spectral and thermal measurement, this has become a thing of the past.

SDSC’s simultaneous data acquisition significantly reduces sample preparation and data collection time, yet provides complementary sample information. Benefiting a wide variety of applications, energetic thermal events can now be correlated directly with any chemical change in the sample. This unique solution delivers previously unavailable yet essential information to anyone researching new and emerging applications in the pharmaceutical industry.