Article: New Developments In XRPD For The Pharmaceutical Industry

As seen in the Fall 2007 Pharmaceutical Online Solutions Update

Despite its great potential, for many years X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) has remained purely a useful fingerprinting tool or a method to provide sets of d-spacings for patent applications. However, the emergence of ultra-fast detectors, together with advanced software for processing large amounts of rapidly generated data, has led to a dramatic increase in the use of XRPD in the pharmaceutical industry. Submitted by PANalytical