Lab Armor has launched the Bead Bath, a waterless alternative to contamination-prone traditional laboratory water baths that offers good temperature uniformity.
The Bead Bath is always on, meaning scientists do not have to plan around warm-up times.
There is also no burn-out risk because there is no water to evaporate.
The Bead Bath keeps samples organised, naturally holding vessels in place without the need for racks, floats and bottleneck weights.
Vessels that can be used with the Bead Bath are not limited to watertight containers.
Scientists can incubate multi-well plates, Petri dishes, and open-top samples at any angle.
While traditional water baths must be routinely monitored, cleaned, refilled and maintained with harmful germicides, Lab Armor said the Bead Bath is practically maintenance free.
In addition, Lab Armor beads can be used to replace water in existing baths, aluminium blocks in dry baths and even ice in ice buckets.
The beads can also be used in containers placed in ovens and incubators to replace sample racks.
The Lab Armor Bead Bath's thermal uniformity is 37C +/- 0.5C and 65C +/- 1.0C with a temperature range of 5C above ambient to 80C.
Lab Armor beads support a temperature range of -100C to +400C in laboratory equipment.
