Heat transfer plates in conjunction with centrifugal evaporation provides a highly productive and sample safe solution for removal of solvent from microplate samples
Traditionally, removing solvents such as DMSO or water from microplates has been time consuming, because very little of the surface area of the plate is in good thermal contact with the sample holder.
However Genevac says its heat transfer plates overcome this problem.
Each transfer plate acts as a snugly fitting insert beneath the plastic microplate facilitating efficient thermal energy transfer from the hot outer surface of the sample holder directly to the walls of the microplate.
This tight fit ensures maximum heat transfer into the samples for very rapid evaporation rates without the risk of overheating fast drying samples.
By specifying an evaporator such as the Genevac HT4X or EZ-2 with high power lamps, overall drying times for aqueous samples can be cut to just one fifth of that required without heat transfer plates.
Consequently more plates can be dried leading to higher throughput, a key goal for busy laboratories.
Genevac provides optimised heat transfer plates for most popular brands of microplates.
