A comprehensive reference that explores how thermodynamic principles support pharmaceutical product design and their applications
In an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand style, Thermodynamics for Pharmaceutical Product Design provides a wealth of real-world, applied pharmaceutical product design examples, personal anecdotes, and solved problems that embed the principles of thermodynamics in the text for pharmaceutical product design students. Graduate and early-career students will learn to apply thermodynamic principles to create robust pharmaceutical products and predict, analyze, and evaluate the root cause of product failure. Professionals working in pharmaceutical product design will find the book a rich and easy-to-use reference guide.
The first two chapters cover some of the key principles of data reporting and analysis, mathematics, and thermodynamic properties using simple, understandable language. These chapters also help readers understand the basic definitions and special relationships needed to apply the laws of thermodynamics to the design of pharmaceutical products. In subsequent chapters, the book is designed around six thermodynamic topics relevant to industrial pharmaceuticals: laws of thermodynamics, Gibbs free energy, composition, drug solubility, surface thermodynamics, and adsorption phenomena.
Thermodynamics for Pharmaceutical Product Design includes chapters on the following:
Data Reporting and Analysis
Relationships and Definitions of Basic Thermodynamic Properties
Laws of Thermodynamics
Gibbs Free Energy
Comparison
Drug Solubility
Surface Thermodynamics
Adsorption Phenomena
