Abstract
A well-known photolabile substance, nifedipine, was used as a sample material to test self-constructed irradiation cells and demonstrate their usefulness in photostability studies. The devices were made as accessories for a commercial isothermal microcalorimeter. Several powder samples containing various amounts of moisture were irradiated with monochromatic light as a scan measurement from 700 to 280 nm, and the heat flow evolved in the photodegradation of nifedipine was determined. According to the results, light does not affect the nifedipine molecule directly, but the photodegradation is a result of the combined effects of moisture and light.
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