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Evaporation equipment
News Release from: Genevac | Subject: Heat transfer plates
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 16 October 2002
Optimal drying of microplate samples
Heat transfer plate acts as an insert beneath the plastic microplate facilitating efficient thermal energy transfer directly to the walls of the microplate
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
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 1 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Available from Genevac is a range of innovative solid aluminium heat transfer plates precision engineered to fit closely to a wide range of microplates
In the microplate format, however, 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.
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