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News Release from: Mesophotonics | Subject: Klarite
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Free Klarite samples for Raman users
The company responsible for the first ever all-in-one Sers toolkit, Mesophotonics, is offering visitors to its website a free sample of its unique substrate, Klarite
Already used across a wide range of applications in over 150 academic and industrial laboratories worldwide, Klarite enhances Raman signals by several orders of magnitude enabling faster trace level molecular analysis of chemical and biological samples at lower detection limits The free sample, pre-coated with a sample monolayer, will allow those taking up the offer to evaluate for themselves Klarite's ability to analyse trace materials at less than picogram levels using standard Raman equipment
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 30 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Professor Michael Morris at the University of Michigan who is using Klarite in his Sers-based research on early identification of biomarkers for osteoarthritis regards it as a major step forward for Raman spectroscopy.
Morris comments: "Sers has finally become the pioneering analytical tool that it promised to be when first developed thirty years ago".
Steve Allen, VP of analytical business at Mesophotonics, explains: "Until now, Sers has only been adopted by specialist laboratories because no-one has been able to make substrates that give reproducible Sers signals.
"By overcoming this problem we have opened up a world of analytical possibilities".
Klarite has been designed and manufactured adopting the same photolithographic processes used in the semiconductor industry to enable reproducibility and large-scale production.
This process, combined with the substrate's high accuracy and sensitivity makes Klarite an affordable, accessible tool that will support the advance of Sers as a widely recognised and deployed analytical technique.
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