Study of the effect of plasticizer on the structure and surface characteristics of ethylcellulose free films with FT-IR spectroscopy

The investigation of free films is an essential part of the preformulation studies, because it is necessary to know, weather the given formulation is suitable to coat the corpus or not. As preformulation, the relationships between surface properties, and the structure of ethylcellulose free films containing different amount of plasticizer were studied. The structure analysis, and the incorporation of the plasticizer was performed with the use of FT-IR analysis. The results showed that the films are suitable to produce diffusion coatings.