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Introduction
Porvair Sciences' 2018 Microplate Catalogue presents a wide range of high-quality microplates designed for life sciences research. These microplates are made from extractable-free polypropylene to ensure compatibility with sensitive analytical techniques. The catalogue includes various microplate types, such as solid and clear-bottomed polystyrene assay plates, deep well collection plates, and Solid Phase Extraction plates. Additionally, Porvair offers microplate heat sealers and evaporators, including the new Ultravap models, Levante and Mistral, which feature advanced evaporation technology.

Specifications and Testing
Porvair Sciences uses clean raw materials to manufacture deep well polypropylene microplates, minimizing extractables. Rigorous testing is conducted to ensure low levels of extractables, especially when storing compounds in solvents like methanol or DMSO. Testing involves incubating methanol in sample plates and analyzing for polymer leachate and extractable contamination using GC-MS, with results showing minimal leachable or extractable compounds.

Product Range
The catalogue offers a variety of microplate products and instruments, including:

Storage/Collection Plates: 96-well and 384-well plates, deep square, deep round, and glass vial storage plates.
Life Sciences Plates: PCR plates, solid bottom assay plates, clear bottom assay plates, and filtration plates.
Solid Phase Extraction: MicroLute, P3 Protein Precipitation Plates, and BioVyon Co-sinter products.
Equipment: Vacuum manifolds, microplate evaporators, and thermal plate sealers.
Automation Accessories: Reservoir trays and custom manufacturing options.

Conclusion
Porvair Sciences aims to be a preferred global partner for microplate products, offering innovative solutions and first-class customer service. The 2018 catalogue serves as an essential reference for laboratories using microplates, providing detailed product specifications and testing results to ensure high performance and reliability.

Overview
Porvair Sciences provides microplates for applications in cell biology, molecular biology, drug discovery, combinatorial chemistry, screening, and genomics. These plates are manufactured under clean room conditions, often DNase/RNase free, and made primarily from polypropylene for its inert, heat, and solvent-resistant properties. They conform to ANSI/SLAS standards, ensuring compatibility with most laboratory equipment.

Specifications

96-Well Shallow Round Plates: Available in 350µl, 270µl, and 220µl capacities with flat, round, or V-bottoms, made from polypropylene with an alphanumeric grid reference.
96-Well Low Profile Plates: 1.2ml capacity, designed for high-density storage, made from extractable-free polypropylene with an anti-evaporation cap mat.
96-Well Glass Vial Storage Plates: Incorporate 96 borosilicate glass vials of 700µl capacity, suitable for storing aggressive solvents, with a matching cap mat.
384-Well Square Plates: Designed for high-density sample collection, available in 58µl and 300µl capacities, can be stored at temperatures as low as -80ºC.
Large Volume Deep Well Plates: Available in 24 and 48-well formats with capacities up to 10ml per well, suitable for combinatorial, environmental, and food technology applications.
1.1ml Round Well Magnetic Separation Plates: Designed for automated platforms and manual workstations, supporting bead-based separation assays, made from high purity polypropylene.

Features

Plates available in various well shapes and volumes for different applications.
Manufactured from virgin polypropylene, ensuring high purity and compatibility with heat sealing.
Options for sterile and non-sterile plates, with some featuring raised rims for improved sealing.
Designed to fit a variety of thermal cyclers and sequencers, with options for different skirt types and profiles.

Applications
These microplates are suitable for a wide range of laboratory applications, including compound storage, culturing, high-density sample collection, and PCR processes. They are designed to meet the needs of life sciences, automation, and solid-phase extraction.

Procedures and Recommendations

Assay Plate Selection: Importance of selecting the correct microplate for specific applications to achieve optimal results, discussing absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence methods.
Microplate Readers: Recommendations for top and bottom reading instruments, using solid white plates for absorbance and fluorescence, and clear-bottomed plates for luminescence.
Material Considerations: Clear plastic bases for visible wavelength measurements, UV-transparent materials for UV range measurements.

Key Data and Insights

Assay Plate Types: Table summarizing choices for assay plate selection, indicating the most suitable plate type for different assays.
Porvair Krystal Series: Clear bottom plates highlighted for industry-leading performance in drug discovery and screening, with features like low autofluorescence and good cell growth support.

Conclusion
By following guidelines and selecting the appropriate plate type, users can significantly improve assay results. Porvair Sciences offers samples for evaluation to accommodate different detection systems and assay developments.

Universal Robotic Manifold
The Universal Robotic Manifold accommodates collection plates from 14mm to 44mm in height, adaptable for various skirt and drip director configurations. It is compatible with multiple brands of filter plates and collection trays, featuring an integral vacuum gauge for precise vacuum pressure control, ensuring high reproducibility. The manifold is compatible with most commercial robotic liquid handling systems and can be used with a range of manufacturer plates without an adaptor, although some plate types may require a shallow or deep adaptor.

Microplate Evaporators
Porvair evaporators enhance laboratory productivity by removing the bottleneck of solvent evaporation from microplates. They utilize advanced evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design to inject heated nitrogen into each well, significantly increasing sample throughput. The evaporators are easy to install, operate, and maintain, requiring only a gas supply and mains electricity. They are not suitable for high boiling solvents like DMSO and water.

MiniVap™ Blowdown Sample Concentrator
The MiniVap series is designed for low usage research and development, offering quicker drying times than standard methods. It is simple to operate and maintain, with manual control of needle depth, gas temperature, and flow rate.

Ultravap™ Levante™
The Ultravap Levante™ is a standalone evaporator with full-colour touch screen displays and real-time run displays. It offers multi-step ramped programming and is compatible with most microplate formats and tube racks. The Levante is robustly built for long life in the laboratory and features a built-in fume duct with an optional fan unit.

Ultravap™ Mistral
The Ultravap Mistral automates the dry-down step, overcoming the limitations of traditional centrifugal-type evaporators. It is fully robot compatible and suitable for integration with leading laboratory liquid handling robots. The Mistral offers flexible programming with the ability to store multiple drying programmes.

Catalog excerpts

STORAGE/COLLECTION STO R AGE/CO LLECTI O N Welcome to the 2018 edition of the Porvair Sciences Microplate catalogue. Our aim is to provide you with a comprehensive range of precision-assembled, top quality microplates to enhance your research and analysis. We take great pride in our quality of materials, especially our extractable-free polypropylene, to ensure that our plates will not compromise your sensitive analytical techniques. We do this through rigorous testing and selection with a careful eye for quality control in our UK clean room assembly plant. SOLID PH A SE EXTRACTION SO LI D PHASE...

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STORAGE/COLLECTION STO R AGE/CO LLECTI O N Contents Application table Page 18 Page 20 Page 21 Page 23 Page 25 Page 28 Page 32 Page 34 Page 35 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 48 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 55 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Automation accessories Reservoir trays Custom manufacture Chemical compatibility chart SOLID PH A SE EXTRACTION SO LI D PHASE E X TR ACTI O N Equipment Vacuum manifolds Microplate evaporators MiniVap™ microplate evaporator MiniVap™ Gemini microplate evaporator Ultravap™ Levante™ microplate evaporator Ultravap™...

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STORAGE/COLLECTION STO R AGE/CO LLECTI O N SOLID PH A SE EXTRACTION SO LI D PHASE E X TR ACTI O N Solid bottom Glass bottom Quartz bottom Clear bottom Filtration plates Bacti-growth plates SPE MicroLute MaxiLute CombiLute Equipment Manifolds Thawing station AUTO M ATI O N ACCESSORIES AUTOMATION ACCESSO RI ES CUSTO M M AN U FACTU RE CUSTOM MANUFACTURE Automation Reservoir trays

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Are your plates whiter than white? Or do they harbour a dirty secret? This allows rapid production of plates and lower costs, but may compromise the integrity of samples or compounds which are stored in such plates for extended periods. The problem is particularly acute where compounds are stored as solutions in solvents such as methanol or DMSO, as these excellent solvents have a tendency to extract from the polypropylene base material any added extractable compounds such as mould release agents or polymer flow improvers. From this it can be seen that it is essential to select the correct grade...

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96-well deep square44mm height The family of 96 square well plates was designed so that it would make the interchange of plates simpler in automated systems. All three plates have the same geometry and the only variable is the well depth. CUSTOM MANUFACTURE AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES l EQUIPMENT SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION LIFE SCIENCES l • Made from virgin polypropylene • Tested for low extractables • V bottom to allow total liquid removal, partial collection and to aid re-suspension • No inner edges to allow better collection of magnetic beads • DNase/ RNase free • Working volumes of 350pl,...

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STORAGE/COLLECTION - 96-WELL DEEP ROUND 'COMMON WALL' 96-well deep round 'common wall' 45mm height These revolutionary plates are made in virgin polypropylene to minimise extractables. Maximum volume is 2.075ml per well and working volume is a useful 1.85ml, more than any other comparable ‘2ml Round Well' plate in this class. The ‘common wall' design allows the highest possible volume to be used whilst maintaining an overall height of just 45mm, complete with ANSI/SLAS standard base and footprint. Extra working volume is thus assured in a convenient round bottom, round well format. • Manufactured...

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Deep well round 1ml42mm height The plates are made in virgin polypropylene to minimise extractables. Working volume is 1ml per well and total volume is 1.1ml. Coloured plates aid identification when retrieving from storage. Black plates are suitable for storing light sensitive compounds. CUSTOM MANUFACTURE AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES l EQUIPMENT SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION LIFE SCIENCES I • Manufactured from pre-tested polypropylene for low extractables • Alphanumeric grid-referencing • DNase/ RNase free • Packed in sealed sleeves of 5 plates • Rimmed version to stop cross contamination and...

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96-WELL SHALLOW ROUND 96-well shallow round 14.7mm height Porvair Sciences has developed a number of storage/collection plates to help in the fields of cell biology, molecular biology, drug discovery, combinatorial chemistry, screening and genomics. The plates are manufactured under clean room conditions and a significant number are DNase/RNase free. They are mainly made from polypropylene, an inert material giving heat and solvent resistant qualities. Porvair Sciences offers the largest combination of well shape, number of wells and well volume on the market. Each is made to the ANSI/SLAS format...

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96-WELL ROUND LOW PROFILE 96-well round low profile A new introduction to the Porvair range is a low profile 1.2ml 96-well round plate with a height of just 27mm. This allows more plates to be stored or stacked in a given space. The plates are made with extractable-free polypropylene for excellent results. A specific anti-evaporation cap mat is also available for this plate manufactured from thermoplastic elastomer. CUSTOM MANUFACTURE AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES l EQUIPMENT SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION LIFE SCIENCES • Allows stacking in higher densities • Minimises space needed for compound...

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96-well glass vial storage plate 44mm height Store aggressive solvents in glass vials Chemically resistant No trace impurities for UHPLC Prevent evaporation with matching cap mat LIFE SCIENCES LI FE SCI EN CES AUTO M ATI O N ACCESSORIES AUTOMATION ACCESSO RI ES SO LI D PHASE E X TR ACTI O N SOLID PH A SE EXTRACTION The new Porvair glass vial storage plate combines 96 borosilicate glass vials of 700µl into a rigid polypropylene carrier plate for ease of storage and transportation. The glass vials are round bottomed and the plate can be capped with our matching square-well cap mat to prevent evaporation...

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3 84-WELL SQUARE 384-well square Porvair Sciences has a selection of 384-well polypropylene plates to suit most applications. All of them are made from pre-tested polypropylene in Class 100000 clean rooms. CUSTOM MANUFACTURE AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES l EQUIPMENT SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION LIFE SCIENCES • Manufactured for high density sample collection / storage • Two sizes: 58pl and 300pl per well working volume • Each are designed to allow almost total removal of liquid sample • Extra flat - allows plate sealing • Storage temperature down to -80°C • Available sterile and non sterile • All...

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