Heated and Cooled Element:

Description:

A three position micro–titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that provides three heated or cooled zones.

Temperature Range:

-40°C to +180°C

Number of Plate Positions:

3

Heated and Cooled Tumble Stirring Element:

Description:

A three position micro-titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that provides three heated or cooled zones with magnetic tumble stirring capability.

Temperature Range:

-40°C to +180°C

Tumble Stirring:

0 to 750 RPM

Number of Plate Positions:

3

Heated and Cooled Rotary Stirring Element:

Description:

A three position micro–titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that provides three heated or cooled zones with magnetic rotary stirring capability within each zone.

Temperature Range:

-40°C to +120°C

Tumble Stirring:

0 to 500 RPM

Number of Plate Positions:

3

Vortexing Element:

Description:

A three position micro-titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that provides three independently–controlled orbital mixing positions.

Independent Mixing Zones

3

Tumble Stirring:

0 to 1000 RPM

High Accuracy Sample Weighing with in situ Imaging:

Description:

Deck Element that delivers high accuracy weighing of samples with an integrated high resolution digital camera to capture sample images for analysis and verification.

Balance Resolution:

0.01 mg or .1 mg

Weighing Range:

0 to 60 mg or 0 to 220 mg

Camera Resolution

1024 x 768 pixel, 1280 x 1024 pixel

Coating & Curing:

Description:

A three position micro–titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that efficiently holds and heats three Symyx coating sample substrates for curing, drying and analytical measurement.

Temperature Range:

0°C to +120°C

Vacuum Filtration:

Description:

A three position micro–titer plate (MTP) format Deck Element that vacuum filtration capabilities with many standard filtration plates.

Plate Compatibility:

Variety of multi–well filter plates.

Solvent Compatibility:

Caustic acids and bases, including Hydrofluoric acid

Wetted materials:

Teflon

Heated Filtration Plate:

Description:

A Symyx patented design microtiter plate format element that provides accurate filtration of solutions and slurries.

Filtration Wells:

96

Temperature Range:

-10°C to +120°C

Filter Materials:

Various

Filter Sizes:

Various

Reaction Block:

Description:

A single Reactor Block designed to work with any of the Symyx Heated and Cooled Deck Elements to meet a researcher’s need to execute reaction chemistry with external heating/cooling and robotic automation from sample preparation and formulation.

Reaction Wells:

96

Temperature Range:

-40°C to +120°C

Size:

Microtiter plate format

Barcode Reader:

Description:

On deck element that supports the reading of vials with printed barcodes.

Supported barcodes:

Code 39, ITF, Industrial 2 of 5, Standard 2 of 5, COOP 2 of 5, Coda bar, Code 128, GS1–128 (EAN-128), Code 93, UPC/EAN, GS1 DataBar (RSS)

Shear Rate Independent Viscometer:

Description:

Measures the viscosity of a fluid independent of shear rate.

Full Scale Pressure:

0 to 200 KPA

Dynamic Range in Shear Stress:

.5 to 1000 PA

Temperature Range:

20°C to +50°C

Sample loop size:

1 mL

Heated Tip Wash Station:

Description:

High Temperature heated solution wash station for Arm Effector dispensing elements.

Wash Solution:

Various solvents

Temperature Range:

Ambient to +120°C

Ultrasonic Tip Wash Station:

Description:

Deck Element that provides high energy ultrasonic washing of Arm Effector dispensing elements.

Wash Solution:

Various solvents

Plate Rotation:

Description:

Deck Element that effectively rotates a micro–titer plate 90° to change the plate orientation for integration to third party plate–handling equipment

Rotation Capability:

0 to 90°

Heated and Cooled Micro–washing:

Description:

Deck Element that provides multiple independent wells of sample washing that can be heated or cooled.

Temperature Range:

15°C to +100°C

Washing rate:

Variable

Heated and Cooled Sample Blending:

Description:

Deck Element that provides multiple heated or cooled zones of cups for sample blending. Blender cups are multi–use (durable) or disposable depending on user needs.

Temperature Range:

15°C to +100°C

Blender Speed:

0 to 4000 RPM

Blender Cup Size

40 mL

Blender Cup Material

SS, PEEK, PPE, Al

Color, Gloss, and Thickness Measurement:

Description:

Deck Element that provides non-contact tribology measurement capabilities for a full range of Symyx coating sample substrates – accurately measuring sample color, sample gloss, and sample thickness.

Color Measurement:

Gloss Measurement:

Thickness Measurement:

Measurement Method: Non-contact laser confocal displacementMeasurement Dynamic Range: 0.040” (±1 mm)Measurement Resolution: 0.008 mil (± .2 um)Measurement Accuracy: ±0.08 mil (± 2 um)Measurement Repeatability: ±0.04 mil (± 1 um) Spot Diameter: 0.00027” (7 m)Wavelength: 670 nm

Heated Piercing Tip:

Description:

Heated Piercing Dispense Tip that can accommodate a wide variety of needle sizes and syringe volumes.

Temperature Range:

Ambient to +120°C

Piercing Tip Sizes:

22 GA

Min. Dispense Volume:

5 uL

Heated Dispense Volume

0 to 1000 uL

Vial Gripping:

Description:

Motorized or pneumatically actuated vial grippers that can accommodate a wide range of vial sizes.

Gripper range:

8 mm to 30 mm

Plate Gripping:

Description:

Pneumatically-controlled plate gripper that picks up and places micro-titer plate formats.

Substrate compatibility:

Micro-titer plates, Symyx custom substrates

Viscous Dispensing:

Description:

Disposable Positive Displacement style viscous dispensing tip technology to handle high viscosity liquids and to minimize cross-contamination and carryover in experimentation.

Disposable Dispensing Tip Sizes:

10 uL, 25 uL, 50 uL , 100 uL, 250 uL, 1 mL, 5 mL, 10 mL, and 25 mL

Powder Dispensing:

Description:

A state-of-the-art automated powder Arm Effector based on the proven Powdernium powder dispensing technology.

Interchangeable Dispenser Type

10 mL, 25 mL hoppers with 12 mm valves.Optional Sizes: 10, 25, and 50 ml hopper with 8 mm or 12 mm valves, Microdispenser head with adapter.

Dispensing range:

0.5 mg – 5000 mg (depending on dispensing head size.)

High Temperature Dispensing:

Description:

High temperature heated dispense tip for viscous liquids and slurries.

Temperature Range:

Ambient to +200°C

Piercing Tip Sizes:

18 to 22 GA

Heated Dispense Volume

0 to 5 mL

Doctor Blade:

Description:

Arm Effector that draws down wet films for subsequent dry film coating creation.

Draw Down Sizes:

1”Wx2”L, 2”Wx2”L, 2”Wx4”L

Doctor Blade Gap Sizes:

.003”, .010”, .020”, .040”

Multi-tip Heated Piercing Dispense:

Description:

Multi-tip Heated Piercing Dispense Tip used in high throughput crystallization and dispense workflows.

Temperature Range:

Ambient to +120°C

Number of Piercing Tips

4

Piercing Tip Sizes:

22 GA

Min. Dispense Volume:

5 uL

Heated Dispense Volume

0 to 1000 uL

pH Measurement:

Description:

Piercing analytical pH probe.

pH range:

0 to 14

pH Resolution

+/-0.02

Needle Size

16 GA

Vial Cap Handling:

Description:

Symyx has Arm Effectors and Deck Elements that can handle a variety of gravity and screw type caps to cover and seal vials.

Cap Sizes:

2 mL to 40 mL vial sizes

Overhead Stirring, Scaping and Whisking:

Description:

4 position overhead stirrer

Stirring

Whisk, paddles

Stirring Speed:

0 to 500 RPM

Wetted materials:

Ti–6AL–4V, Stainless Steel, Teflon

Tack and Friction Measurement:

Description:

Arm Effector that measures tack and friction across substrates processed on various Core Module deck sample preparation deck elements using disposable force probes.

Probe Materials:

Probe head exchange:

Probe head manually removable and replaced with a different head for different probe sizes or shapes.