The activation energy at Tg and the fragility index of indomethacin, predicted from the influence of the heating rate on the temperature position and on the intensity of thermally stimulated depolarization current peak

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1879-1884

  Moura Ramos, Joaquim J ^a   Correia, Natália T ^a   Taveira Marques, Raquel ^a   Collins, George ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b TherMold Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragility; Glass transition; Molecular mobility; Thermally stimulated depolarisation currents; TSDC

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENERGY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG STABILITY; HEAT;

DRUG STABILITY; HEAT; INDOMETHACIN;

EID: 0036913257     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021405927463     Document Type: Article

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