Instrument Provides Chemical Imaging Solutions

Malvern Instruments’ recent acquisition of Spectral Dimensions Inc. has added powerful NIR (near infrared) chemical imaging systems to the Malvern portfolio – the NIR-CI 2450. The NIR-CI 2450, which incorporates the latest technology for chemical imaging joins Malvern’s extensive range of instruments and technologies for materials characterization, such as the laser diffraction-based Spraytec and Mastersizer 2000 particle size analyzers, the Morphologi G2 high sensitivity particle image analyzer for shape and size measurement, the Zetasizer Nano for characterizing nano-sized particles and molecules in solution, and the Gemini HRnano rheometer. An exciting new analytical approach, chemical imaging enables the identification and spatial localization of chemical species in a sample, producing a ‘chemical map’. By combining traditional near infrared spectroscopy with microscopic and macroscopic imaging, a single rapid measurement enables analysts to obtain quantitative spatial and spectral information with unprecedented ease. In the pharmaceutical industry chemical imaging of solid dosage forms is used increasingly to determine: sample content uniformity; domain size characteristics; distribution of components (blending); polymorph distribution; moisture content; location of contaminants; coating and layer thickness. Visit www.malvern.com/chemical-imaging

The NIR-CI 2450 incorporates the latest technology for chemical imaging.