Journal
JOURNAL OF ADHESION
Volume 84, Issue 6, Pages 483-501Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00218460802161517
Keywords
contact angle; crystals; heterogeneity; inverse gas chromatography; optical isomers; surface chemistry; surface free energy; wetting
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The wetting behavior and detailed surface energetics of a racemate crystalline system were measured via contact angle measurements and inverse gas chromatography at finite concentrations. The advancing contact angles for water, diiodomethane, formamide, and ethylene glycol were measured on specific facets for racemic ibuprofen and S-(+)-ibuprofen single macroscopic crystals, and were found to be facet dependent for both systems. This observation demonstrates that variation in molecular orientation within the crystal lattice results in variations in exposed surface chemistry for differing facets, which results in anisotropic wetting behavior as previously reported. Surface free energy profiles of the ibuprofen race-mates determined using a novel inverse gas chromatography method showed that powder samples (75-150 mu m particle diameter) exhibited relatively homogeneous surface energies, with similar values of gamma SVd to those obtained by the contact angle analysis. These results lead us to conclude that ibuprofen exhibited a low level of surface heterogeneity, with the dominant facet of these powders exhibiting a low gamma SVd, with high energetic sites estimated to be <3% of exposed available surface.
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