March 29, 2012 — Microfluidic systems designer and maker Dolomite released Pico-Glide, a surface coating agent that facilitates advanced droplet microfluidics developed by Sphere Fluidics.
Pico-Glide is used to treat glass and PDMS microfluidic channels to create a uniform and dense fluorophilic layer optimized for droplet performance and stability.
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| 8ul water drop on an untreated glass slide | The same water drop on a Pico-Glide-treated glass slide |
The product is available in 5ml, 10ml and 25ml. It can be used with Dolomite’s range of Droplet Junction Chips for biotechnology, DNA analysis and cell studies, and other applications.
Sphere Fluidics is commercializing lab-on-a-chip and picodroplet technology from Cambridge University. The technologies can perform thousands of simultaneous reactions on single cells and small populations of molecules contained within aqueous droplets, fractions of a millimeter in size. For more information please visit www.spherefluidics.com
Dolomite creates microfluidics for analytical, chemical, life sciences, clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food and beverage, nuclear, agriculture, petrochemical, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and other applications. For more information please visit www.dolomite-microfluidics.com.