Description
The NT8® provides users the ability to:
- Save Money + Reduce Waste
The Choice to Reusable Dispensing Tips: Set drops for a 96-well plate using only 8 tips, washing between steps or choose to use new tips per dispense. The choice is yours.
- Maintain Protein Drop Integrity
Proportional Active Humidification: Prevent sample evaporation and increase experiment reproducibility.
- Set-Up Plates in a Cold Room
Cold Room Compatible: Set up crystallization plates at any room temperature including 4°C.
- Screen Using a Variety of Techniques:
- Sitting Drop
- Hanging Drop
- Lipidic Cubic Phase Drops
- Microbatch
- Microseeding
- Additive/Fragment Screening
- Soaking Experiments
- Clean Drop Release with Flexible Fingers
Each tip is attached to a flexible finger that can travel +/- 0.5 mm vertically, enabling the dispense head to contour to the surface of each well. Each tip has a sensor that indicates when the tip contacts the plate's surface, allowing the NT8 to drive down precisely to the point where all tips touch without damaging your plate or sample. The NT8 Drop Setter then retracts slightly - yielding the perfect dispense gap for setting drops, improving drop precision and reducing the chance of bubbles.
- Prevent Drop Evaporation and Increase Reproducibility
The NT8 prevents sample evaporation with three powerful, fully-enclosed humidifiers that actively control humidity from ambient up to 95%. You can set humidity on/off manually or "set it and forget it" and let the NT8 do the work. The system maintains tight humidity control with a variance of only +/- 2.5% and can increase humidity from 60% to 85% in under 20 seconds. Humidifiers are positioned away from active samples so your drops are protected from condensation and buildup.