Polyvinylpyrrolidone is readily soluble in water, physiologically compatible, non-toxic, essentially chemically inert, temperature-resistant, pH-stable, non-ionic, and colorless. This remarkable combination of properties predestined its use in numerous applications in medicine, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and many other industry.
The unique properties of polyvinylpyrrolidone, such as its high solubility in solvents of differing polarities, its solubilizing and film-forming abilities, its suspension and emulsion-stabilizing effects and, last but not least, its binding properties,make it one of the most important excipients in pharmaceutical technology. Scientists keep working on numerous alternative applications of polyvinylpyrrolidone. It will have great market in the future.