We continuously receive requests from customers and prospects who have used thermal electric devices and achieved poor results from their applications. These common situations have prompted us to produce this blog post with five ways that precise, uniform, stable temperature control is the answer for the best sample quality and application results.
laboratory temperature control tips & techniques
Tags: thermal control systems, thermal solutions, thermal block, Precise Temperature Control
We have been producing Thermal Inserts longer than anyone else, dating as far back as 1999 and demand-driven by our customers. It was simple - place any type of microplate on any type of thermal surface at any temperature, and you had a problem. There is an air gap on all plates that exists under the plate from the bottom of the wells or cap to skirt or perimeter of the plate's base. The problem is that air does not act as a very good thermal transfer medium.
Tags: thermal control systems, thermal solutions, thermal tube racks, thermal block, Precise Temperature Control, Microplate Applications, thermal inserts
MéCour-GERSTEL Thermal System, Part No. 80-60GL
Introducing the latest in our accurate and uniform temperature control systems: MéCour's thermal trays that can be configured to integrate with a GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler MPS WorkStation or sample preparation robot, independent of the chromatography system. Sample preparation steps are easily set up for maximum flexibility and ease-of-use without compromising sample integrity due to temperature instability. The thermal trays can be designed to accommodate any consumable plate, vial or tubes and provide a temperature range between -40˚C to +200˚C. You are able to conduct specific ramping cycles all within the same MéCour Thermal Block.
Tags: thermal control systems, thermal solutions, thermal tube racks, mass spec, MeCour Videos, thermal block, heating block, cooling block, Temperature Stability, temperature control systems
MeCour in its ongoing efforts to address and resolve your temperature control and management issues had a little fun shooting a dry ice photo session. As you will see in all of our Product Catalog sections (with exception to Thermal Inserts), we wanted to illustrate how unfortunately dry ice or regular ice does not fully envelop and transfer temperature to the samples contained in various consumables.
Tags: thermal block, temperature control systems, no dry ice for temperature control
Download a newly released white paper on a feasibility study conducted by ImmunoSite Technologies.
Feasibility Study: Improving Cryopreservation of PBMC for More Reliable Information From Clinical Trials
Tags: thermal solutions, thermal block, throughput, Precise Temperature Control, Temperature Control, Temperature Stability, Controlled Freezing & Thawing
MéCour has been at it for 14+ years now. We've been listening to customers and their various needs for reliable and stable temperature control for their plates, tubes, media bottles, you name it. We provide the temperature to it. For automation or benchtop applications in Big Pharma, BioTech or local academic institutions or start-up companies, it’s all the same. It doesn’t matter if the required temp is 4°, 37°, -80° or +250°C. All the circulators connect to MéCour Thermal Blocks in the exact same manner. The system technically operates in the same manner as well. No matter what you call them
Tags: thermal control systems, circulators, thermal block, heating block, cooling block, Precise Temperature Control, Temperature Control, Temperature Stability, Controlled Freezing & Thawing
As we start 2012, MéCour continues to field many requests for our thermal systems that now fall under the “MéCour Odd Duck Category.” Thus, we will have plenty to blog about.
Tags: thermal control systems, thermal solutions, thermal tube racks, thermal block
As the Fall LRIG vendor show approaches on 9/19/11 in Cambridge, MA once again at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, we look back at the past 8-9 years MéCour has participated in this interesting and ever changing one-day show. Notable changes have definitely been not only in scale-up in LH/HTS, but the endless and “never ceases to amaze me” applications the end-users require temperature control for but don’t know or simply can’t find a solution to assist them.
Tags: laboratory automation, thermal control systems, thermal block, Temperature Control
I get phone calls every day and talk to people at events about their temperature control methods and challenges. Whether they are working with chemical, immunological or biological assays or prepping and storing cells under ultra-low temperatures, the result is always the same–their conventional temperature control methods are not as effective as they want them to be.
Tags: biological assays, immunological assays, thermal block, cooling block, Temperature Control