Chemicals Behaving Badly Programme Finds That Infra Red Spotlights Crystal Growth

The creation of a reproducible crystallisation process is a fundamental challenge to drug manufacturers, but a technique which provides real time detailed analyses of chemical processes could provide an answer. Developed by engineers at the University of Leeds, the technique uses infra-red spectroscopy to monitor supersaturation - the levels of chemical saturation in a liquid - required for crystallisation to begin to occur.

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Filed under: Biology on January 24th, 2009