Understand Particle Behaviour
CSD-Particle
Understand particle behaviour with the CSD-Particle software suite and anticipate manufacturing bottlenecks to guide formulation decisions.
Rapidly analyse the mechanical and chemical properties of crystalline particles with a suite of visual and statistical tools.
- Perform particle shape and surface analyses to anticipate manufacturing issues such as sticking, wettability, and tabletability.
- Communicate findings across your team with visual displays of surface chemistry, charge and topology.
Features
Predict particle facets.
Predict the particle shape by predicting which facets are available.
Visualize surface chemistry and charge.
Communicate the distribution of H-bond donors and acceptors on the surface with clear, colour-coded graphics. See the potential causes of wettability, stickiness, flow, and electrostatic issues easily.
Identify potential slip planes, fast.
Determine mechanical properties and guide formulation choices to support better tabletting, flow, and milling.
Evaluate particle surface interactions.
Gain insights into wettability, tabletability, flow, and sticking by understanding the interactions at the particle surface.
Visually map surface interactions.
Calculate and visualize full interaction maps (FIMs) on the surface, showing the positions a given probe is most likely to interact. Change probes to explore interaction types. For example, assess hydrophilicity with the water oxygen probe, or hydrophobicity with methyl carbon.
Understand interactions within the crystal lattice.
Explore system shape and stability and see how internal bonding impacts surface termination and exposed groups on a given facet.
Determine H-bond dimensionality.
Assess hydrogen bonding dimensionality, and how discreet, 3D, or sheet hydrogen bonding impacts the mechanical properties of your product.
Visualize surface topology.
See surface roughness in clear, 3D graphics.
Quantify surface chemistry and topology.
Compare facets, particles, or structures easily by quantifying the density of H-bond donors, acceptors, aromatic bonds, unsatisfied H-bond donors, RMSD, surface area, rugosity, kurtosis, and skewness.
Access via Python API.
Access all these features in the CSD Python API for fully customizable analyses.
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