Hi everyone
does anyone know of any 250-300mL glass troughs/tubs that are automation friendly?
Basically this^^ but with a glass liner or the whole trough is made of glass
Best,
Ashwin
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Glass Coated 96-Well Polypropylene 2.2mL Square Wells With V-Bottom Deep Well Plate, RNase and DNase Free, 10/PK not really the same thing but…
Seems like something clickbio might tackle, but I don’t see anything in their current catalog for glass auto-friendly reservoirs.
What kinda applications? Don’t suppose you could chuck a pyrex or Tupperware on deck with a custom nest, right?
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Thanks, we were thinking of something along these lines as well so this is great
Ashwin
We’re doing drug detection via LCMS. When we analyze samples coming from the hamilton, after a few days we notice a sharp loss of peak area count/intensity for one of the drugs. We did some testing to find out that the drug is leeching into the plastic trough on the hamilton and this is what’s causing a decline in the peak height/intensity.
Clickbio seems like they have a lot of nice automation friendly custom solutions. We have a local glass shop that we may reach out to but for now we have a bandaid solution of using glass tubes and an 8-channel hamilton to do the same transfer step (via multidispense) that seems to be giving us good CVs.
What about stainless? Maybe Mcmaster-Carr has some basic ansi/slas-similar-dimension open boxes.
We were gonna cover the trough with aluminum foil lol! But havent tried that yet. Right now we’re trying to minimize time spent in the trough and that seems to help quite a bit, so once the liquid transfers complete, we pause, empty the trough, then store the solvent back in the fridge
just curious: do you face adsorption on other plasticware like tips?
Little late and not necessarily a trough but when when working on sample stability assays where we wanted to avoid plastic leachables we used these automation friendly (ish) glass storage tubes from Thermo.