Samples preparation equipment
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Ultra-microtome
Manufacturer: Leica
Model: UC6
Features:
A microtome is a tool used to cut extremely thin slices of material, known as sections
Ultra-microtome
Manufacturer: Leica
Model: UC7
Features:
A microtome is a tool used to cut extremely thin slices of material, known as sections
Cryo ultra-microtome
Manufacturerr:Leica
Model: EM FC7
Features:
A microtome is a tool used to cut extremely thin slices of material, known as sections (Cryo sections)
light microscope
Manufacturer: Olympus
Model: BX51
Features:
The optical microscope, often referred to as light microscope, is a type of microscope which uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small samples (×100-×1000)
Stereo microscope
Manufacturer: Olympus
Model: SZ61
Features:
The stereo microscope is an optical microscope variant designed for low magnification observation of a sample, typically using light reflected from the surface of an object rather than transmitted through it.
Centrifuge
Manufacturer: TOMY
Model: Kintaro
Features:
A centrifuge is a piece of equipment that puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis (spins it in a circle), applying a potentially strong force perpendicular to the axis of spin (outward). The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, where the centripetal acceleration causes denser substances and particles to move outward in the radial direction. (Maximum speed is 13500rpm)
Centrifuge
Manufacturerr: TOMY
Model: Kintaro
Features:
A centrifuge is a piece of equipment that puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis (spins it in a circle), applying a potentially strong force perpendicular to the axis of spin (outward). The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, where the centripetal acceleration causes denser substances and particles to move outward in the radial direction. (Maximum speed is 13500rpm)
Multifunction vacuum deposition equipment
Manufacturer:
Model: VE3030CVD
Features:
Vaporation is a common method of thin-film deposition. A source material would be evaporated in a vacuum. The vacuum allows vapor particles to travel directly to the target object (substrate), where they condense back to a solid state. (Uses Au, Carbon, Pt and many metal targets target in 0.001Pa)
Vacuum Evaporator
Manufacturer: JEOL
Model: IB-29510VET
Features:
Evaporation is a common method of thin-film deposition. The source material is evaporated in a vacuum. The vacuum allows vapor particles to travel directly to the target object (substrate), where they condense back to a solid state. (Uses Au and Carbon target in 0.00001Pa)
Freeze Dryer
Manufacturer: HITACHI
Model: ES-2030
Features:
The water contained in the hydrated sample for SEM would be dehydrated with ethyl alcohol, and substituted with t-butyl alcohol, and froze in a refrigerator of -20℃ and then dried with sublimation at about 13.3 Pa in the evacuator of reduced pressure.
Critical point dryer
Manufacturer: JEOL
Model: JCPD-5
Features:
An apparatus for drying a scanning electron microscope sample by utilizing a critical state of a liquid which can be formed by an appropriate combination of temperature and pressure.
Freeze Substitution and Low Temperature Embedding System for Light and Electron Microscopy
Manufacturer:Leica
Model: EM AFS2
Features:
This device performs freeze substitution and progressive lowering of temperature techniques and allows low temperature embedding and polymerization of resins.
Slush Nitrogen production equipment
Manufacturer: JEOL
Model: slushy Nitrogen Production
Features:
Slush hydrogen is a combination of liquid hydrogen and solid hydrogen at the triple point with a lower temperature and a higher density than liquid hydrogen for making a rapid freezing biology samples.
Hydrophilisation device
Manufacturer: JEOL
Model: HD Treatment
Features:
Hydrophilization of the surface of the TEM support film. Dispersion of powder samples in suspensions and negative staining such as virus, fiber, liposome etc. also show excellent effects on dispersibility and dyeability of samples.
InvitroShaker
Manufacturer:
Model: Shake-XR
Features:
It is possible to perform a three-dimensional vibration like a mix of swirling and seesaw, which is best suited for a gentle shaking of the centrifuge tube horizontally.
Automated vibratome for fresh tissue sectioning
Manufacturer:Leica
Model: VT 1000S
Features:
A breakthrough system in which a vibrating blade cuts a specimen while electric knife feeding is performed
Plasma Cleaner
Manufacturer: FISCHIONE
Model: NE Plasma Cleaner 1020
Features:
Plasma cleaning is the removal of impurities and contaminants from surfaces through the use of an energetic plasma or dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma created from gaseous species. Argon gas is used.
Electron Microscope Oven Processor
Manufacturerr:
Model: TD-700
Features:
Polymerizes resin at a temperature of 40-60 ℃.