Description
The NT8 v4
® Drop Setter Liquid Handler 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 -
In order to ensure that drops wick to the crystallization plate, all eight tips must touch the plate. To achieve this, 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. To protect your plate and sample, each tip has a sensor that indicates when the tip contacts the plate's surface. These sensors allow the NT8 v4®to drive down precisely to the point where all tips touch the plate without damaging your plate or sample. The NT8 v4® Drop Setter can then retract slightly away from the surface - yielding the perfect dispense gap for setting drops. This enhancement improves drop precision and reduces the chance of bubbles. - Prevent Drop Evaporation and Increase Reproducibility -
The NT8 v4® 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 has tight control of the humidity with a variance of only +/- 2.5%. The NT8 v4® Drop Setter can increase humidity from 60% to 85% in under 20 seconds. The humidifiers are positioned away from active samples so your drops are protected from condensation and buildup. No need to mop up excess water around your plates.