2005 is already shaping up to be a good year for Irish drug maker Elan, whose solubility enhancing Nanocrystal technology licence with Roche has been expanded (readers with good memories will recall that the original announcement back in April 2004).
It is a well known phenomenon that solubility is related to surface to volume ratios a simple experiment involving a cup of tea, a sugar cube, a teaspoon of granulated sugar and a teaspoon of caster sugar proves the point without requiring a PhD in chemistry.