Disordered Pharmaceutical Materials

This handbook is aimed at scientists and students working in drug development, offering a structured introduction to disordered materials used in pharmaceuticals. It explains the basic principles first, then moves on to how such materials are made and how they are analysed. The focus is on drug delivery systems built from disordered crystals and amorphous solids, presented in a way that avoids heavy mathematical detail.

The book examines disorder in several forms, both in the structure of a material and in its molecular motion, and at different scales. It also considers how disorder affects a drug's dissolution and how stable the material remains over time. Two later chapters cover disorder introduced during manufacturing and the patent questions that arise in this field.

It is written for medicinal and pharmaceutical chemists, materials scientists, clinical physicists, and pharmaceutical laboratories. Its stated purpose is to help readers overcome the practical difficulties of using these materials in industry and to support the development of more effective medicines.