Route value
Concentrate dispersed targets onto one ultra-thin membrane
Centrifugal action moves the sample through the sandwich cup, concentrating and retaining target particles at the embedded-adsorption membrane surface before optical clearing, slide preparation, staining and digital review.
- Concentrated targets
- Bring low-abundance, dispersed targets into a compact membrane area so downstream observation starts with a more focused field.
- A more connected workflow
- Carry the enriched membrane interface into preparation and observation with fewer tube changes, transfers and repeated handling steps.
- Built for standardised handoffs
- Combine the sandwich-cup consumable with preparation, staining and scanning products to organise repeatable batch workflows.
Technology principle
The sandwich cup guides a pretreated sample into the embedded-adsorption membrane interface under centrifugal action, concentrating dispersed targets within a compact ultra-thin membrane area. A porous membrane normally appears white because air in its pores scatters light. Matched clearing medium reduces that scattering while targets remain at the surface, ready for slide preparation, staining, microscopy or digital review.
Workflow connection
Step 1Sample pretreatment
Bring the sample into the sandwich cup
Load the pretreated liquid sample into the standardised sandwich cup to create a stable entry point for sample, membrane and centrifugal action.
Step 2Enrichment
Concentrate targets at the membrane
Centrifugal action brings the sample to the embedded-adsorption membrane, concentrating dispersed targets within a compact ultra-thin membrane area.
Step 3Slide preparation
Clear and prepare the membrane
Connect the enriched membrane to matched optical clearing, slide preparation and staining so surface-retained targets are ready for observation.
Step 4Microscopy
Move into microscopy and digital review
Continue from the prepared membrane into manual microscopy, semi-automatic scanning or automated scanning as one connected review workflow.
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