Mettler Toledo and Bruker Optics have developed Spectral Differential Scanning Calorimetry (SDSC) - a hyphenated technique for simultaneous thermal and spectral analysis.
SDSC provides a new method for gaining insight into material behaviour.
The technique speeds up the development process by reducing the time needed for sample preparation, batch cycles and data collection.
Hyphenated techniques are widely acknowledged for their ability to provide invaluable insights into a range of material behaviour.
The new technique integrates FTNIR/Raman and Differential Scanning Calorimetry, delivering enhanced information across a range of applications.
Thermal and spectral analysis is conducted routinely to characterise a range of materials and compounds.
However, tests are usually conducted independently on separate samples where comparison of essentially the same material can provide conflicting results.
Thanks to the new collaboration and the complete integration of spectral and thermal measurement, this has become a thing of the past.
SDSC's simultaneous data acquisition reduces sample preparation and data collection time, yet provides complementary sample information.
Benefiting a variety of applications, energetic thermal events can now be correlated directly with any chemical change in the sample.
Polymorphs, which are currently difficult to compare using discreet methods, can be differentiated dynamically.
Isothermal polymorphic transitions can be easily distinguished.
The presence of water in different states (free or bound) in different crystalline forms can also be easily identified.