Solutions for Liquid Retention in High-precision Pipette Tips
Apr 13, 2023
There is an increased demand for pipette tips in biological testing laboratories due to the COVID-19 epidemic, which is 10 times more than a few years ago. Pipette tips are an important part of pipettes, which are often used in analyzing chemistry and molecular biology. A pipette is a kind of laboratory equipment frequently used in analyzing chemistry and molecular biology. The device works under the action of a piston, which allows the liquid to be sampled to be taken or released with great precision.
Pipettes are traditionally equipped with a tip at their lower ends. A pipette tip is a removable part designed to collect the sample taken for researching any molecular biology and genetics. It effectively forms a protective structure between the pipette and the sample, ensuring the safety of the sample. The pipette tip is traditionally made of polypropylene, which is a disposable consumable, and can be used according to the nature of the taken samples and stored in sterile packaging.
In daily use, an invisible liquid film remains on the inner wall of the pipette tip, and as the pipette tip is discarded, a large number of precious samples are wasted, especially for sensitive PCR and real-time quantitative PCR experiments, low adsorption surface can improve the repeatability and significantly reduce the loss of expensive reagents. The surface of the pipette tip is treated to form a super-hydrophobic nano-surface, which can reduce the degree of liquid adsorption, and is many times lower than that of untreated polypropylene PP surface.
With the implementation of the new EU REACH Act in 2021, C8-based chemical raw material coatings are banned, and the halogen-free coatings Nanofics and PlasmaGuard provided can fully meet the latest regulatory requirements. The solution has been recognized by the market. Many well-known manufacturers of experimental consumables in Europe and America have adopted this solution.
Features of the Super Hydrophobic Nano Coating
1. It can be evenly coated on complex-shaped surfaces or structures.
2. It is an ultra-thin 3D plasma flexible coating. The thickness is from 50 to 500nm.
3. It can withstand high temperatures and the maximum temperature is 159℃.
4. It can reduce the liquid adsorption of the pipette tip and minimize the loss of precious samples.
5. The super-hydrophobic nano-coating has the characteristics of antibacterial and biocompatibility, and meets the standards of REACH, ROHS, USP and WEEE.
6. The coating is divided into ordinary nano-hydrophobic coatings and halogen-free nano-hydrophobic coatings, which meet the latest EU REACH Act.
Under vacuum conditions, Europlasma achieves low-pressure plasma surface polymerization (PECVD) or atomic layer deposition on the shallow surface of the material, thereby endowing the material with new functions without affecting the performance of materials. It can be evenly coated on the surface of three-dimensional structures and complex shapes. Europlasma plasma nano-coating complies with REACH, RoHS, WEEE standards.
Pipettes are traditionally equipped with a tip at their lower ends. A pipette tip is a removable part designed to collect the sample taken for researching any molecular biology and genetics. It effectively forms a protective structure between the pipette and the sample, ensuring the safety of the sample. The pipette tip is traditionally made of polypropylene, which is a disposable consumable, and can be used according to the nature of the taken samples and stored in sterile packaging.
In daily use, an invisible liquid film remains on the inner wall of the pipette tip, and as the pipette tip is discarded, a large number of precious samples are wasted, especially for sensitive PCR and real-time quantitative PCR experiments, low adsorption surface can improve the repeatability and significantly reduce the loss of expensive reagents. The surface of the pipette tip is treated to form a super-hydrophobic nano-surface, which can reduce the degree of liquid adsorption, and is many times lower than that of untreated polypropylene PP surface.
With the implementation of the new EU REACH Act in 2021, C8-based chemical raw material coatings are banned, and the halogen-free coatings Nanofics and PlasmaGuard provided can fully meet the latest regulatory requirements. The solution has been recognized by the market. Many well-known manufacturers of experimental consumables in Europe and America have adopted this solution.
Features of the Super Hydrophobic Nano Coating
1. It can be evenly coated on complex-shaped surfaces or structures.
2. It is an ultra-thin 3D plasma flexible coating. The thickness is from 50 to 500nm.
3. It can withstand high temperatures and the maximum temperature is 159℃.
4. It can reduce the liquid adsorption of the pipette tip and minimize the loss of precious samples.
5. The super-hydrophobic nano-coating has the characteristics of antibacterial and biocompatibility, and meets the standards of REACH, ROHS, USP and WEEE.
6. The coating is divided into ordinary nano-hydrophobic coatings and halogen-free nano-hydrophobic coatings, which meet the latest EU REACH Act.
Under vacuum conditions, Europlasma achieves low-pressure plasma surface polymerization (PECVD) or atomic layer deposition on the shallow surface of the material, thereby endowing the material with new functions without affecting the performance of materials. It can be evenly coated on the surface of three-dimensional structures and complex shapes. Europlasma plasma nano-coating complies with REACH, RoHS, WEEE standards.
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