Genevac Optimal drying of microplate samples …

OCTOBER 11th 2002.  Leader in centrifugal evaporation Genevac has introduced a new range of Heat Transfer Plates to ensure optimal drying of samples in microplates.

Centrifugal evaporation is now the method of choice for drying delicate samples in drug discovery chemistry.  However in the microplate format removing solvent can be time consuming because very little of the surface area of the plate is in good thermal contact with the sample holder. Genevac Heat Transfer plates overcome this problem.

Machined directly from a solid block of aluminium, each transfer plate acts as a snugly fitting insert beneath the plastic microplate facilitating efficient thermal energy transfer from the hot outer surface of the Genevac sample holder directly to the walls of the microplate.  Drying times now become dependent only on available IR lamp power. By specifying an evaporator with high power lamps, overall drying times for aqueous samples can be cut to just one fifth of that required without Heat Transfer Plates. Consequently more plates can be dried leading to higher throughput, a key goal for the busy drug discovery laboratory.

Heat Transfer plates are already available for the following manufacturers microplates: Axygen, Greiner, Nunc, Whatman, Beckman, Corning Costar, Micronic, Polyfiltronics, MultiChem, Matrix and ABGene. Full details of available plates are contained in the latest Genevac accessories brochure, which can be freely downloaded from the Genevac website at http://www.genevac.co.uk/brochure/index.html .

Genevac Ltd. belongs to the Apogent Technologies Group of companies.

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UK

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email  info@genevac.co.uk 

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Genevac Inc
Valley Cottage , NY USA

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