Conductive Filter Tips
Conductive filter tips are essential to getting precise clinical and forensic results in robotic pipetting. Their electrical conductivity enables automated sensors to dispense exact sample amounts based on fluid-level detection. These tools allow you to fully control the aspirate and position while consuming the smallest sample possible.
The Importance of Conductive Filter Tips
Filters in conductive tips form a barrier that's vital to:
- Preventing cross-sample contamination: Contaminated samples result in lost research time, impact cell viability and affect the reproducibility of testing results. This carryover can also cause issues like false positives.
- Processing hazardous liquids: Volatile fluids, corrosive or radio-labeled material and vapor-producing chemicals can pose risks to health and equipment that filters mitigate. Analyzing DNA, RNA or infectious samples also calls for filter tips.
Conductive Tip Facts
Useful facts about conductive filter tips include the following:
- Conductive polypropylene tips contain carbon or graphite to enhance their conductivity. This ingredient gives them their distinguishable black color.
- While filters don't impact a tip's capacity, they can affect sample flow because filters alter the airflow inside the pipette itself.
- Conductive tips only work with liquids that are also conductive.
Choosing the Right Conductive Filter Tip
When selecting the ideal filter tip for your specific needs, consider:
- Tip size: Tip size is the determinant for sample volume and flow. For example, 300 uL conductive sterile filter tips dispense up to 300 uL with a midlevel flow.
- Sterility needs: The most sensitive applications require sterile tips produced by a manufacturer that can certify their freedom from any contaminants.
- Quality: High-quality tips meet rigid testing standards to prevent contamination that can influence results, such as USP 2137 for heavy metal content.
Ideal Applications for Conductive Filter Tips
Conductive filter tips are valuable in many applications:
- Molecular biology, cytomics and genomics: Use filter tips for NGS library preparation or protein isolation while reducing bias introduction.
- Immunoassay preparation: Measure proteins, antigens and antibodies for disease study or control with accuracy and high throughput.
- Pharmaceutical processing: Protect against infection with non-pyrogenic properties that meet FDA standards for endotoxin safety.
- Life science research: Conduct metabolomic tests valuable in emerging medicine and early disease detection methods.
- Hematology and histology: Guard sensitive pipettes during tissue culturing and cell staining procedures while preserving sample integrity.
- Forensic analysis: Extract DNA or chemical properties from minimal samples while maintaining accuracy and repeatability.
Why Work With Mercedes Scientific?
Mercedes Scientific takes pride in being a market leader in conductive filter tips for precise automated pipetting applications. Our inventory comes from industry-renowned manufacturers and spans sizes from 50 to 1,000 microliters. Our tips are compatible with many systems, including popular Hamilton workstations and Freedom EVO liquid handlers.
At Mercedes Scientific, we're dedicated to partnership, fun and efficiency in the buying process. Our expert team boasts over 30 years of experience to help you find the right solution for your specific pipetting needs.
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