Schott Technical Glass Solutions has extended the Nexterion range of micro-porous nitrocellulose-coated slides.
The company offers slides with performance characteristics optimised for contact or non-contact microarray printers.
For use with non-contact printers, Schott recommends Nexterion Slide NC-N.
As an alternative, Nexterion Slide NC-C is a nitrocellulose formulation that contains a higher cellulose nitrate content, suitable for use with contact printers.
Alistair Rees, Microarray slide product manager, said: 'We found that it was not feasible to offer a single-membrane structure that performed optimally with the two microarray printing methods and for the majority of applications.
'As a result, Schott developed a nitrocellulose membrane with a higher-density polymer and a smaller pore size.' Nexterion nitrocellulose-coated slides are available in single- or multiple-pad formats.
