Beckman Coulter has announced that a new sample-handling system reduces the sample size requirements for the Multisizer 4 particle analysis system.
The sample-handling system reduces minimum volume requirements on the Multisizer 4 Coulter Counter particle characterisation system from 10mL to 4mL.
The adapter accommodates Nalgene 5mL polyethylene vials and will address the volume range important to customers who are sensitive to sample size and dilution effects.
The ability to accept smaller volumes is critical in applications in which samples are rare or expensive, according to Beckman Coulter.
Elsa Burgess, director of worldwide operations for the Particle Characterisation Business Center, said: 'Customers using the Multisizer 4 for counting particles in protein formulations, in applications such as pharmaceutical development, needed to work with smaller sample volumes.
'We're glad to have developed this new adapter and excited about the opportunities it presents to researchers,' Burgess added.
Matthew Rhyner, technical marketing manager at Beckman Coulter, said: 'While the protein formulation market motivated us to begin this project, we quickly realised that the new vials could be used by cell biologists, chemists and geologists - any customers with precious samples.' The new adapter is distributed exclusively in the UK by Dunstable particle characterisation products specialist Meritics.
