Applications of NEXTERION® glass substrates
SCHOTT MINIFAB partners with clients to create and manufacture ground-breaking diagnostics and life science products that are changing the world.
With our dedication to excellence and expertise in glass technology, we provide unmatched reliability and performance, empowering researchers to unlock new insights and advancement in diagnostics and life sciences. Explore the range of applications, NEXTERION® glass substrates can positively impact.
Substrates for microarrays
SCHOTT offers specialized glass substrates tailored for microarray applications, precisely engineered from our proprietary D 263® and BOROFLOAT® materials. These substrates excel in minimizing auto fluorescence and enhancing signal-to-noise ratio, crucial for precise data acquisition in microarray experiments. Prepared with our advanced surface coatings, our substrates facilitate high performance microarray workflows, ensuring optimal conditions for accurate and reliable results.
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Flow cells for genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics
SCHOTT's glass substrates enable diverse applications in genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics. Built from our D 263® and BOROFLOAT® family of materials, our substrates offer low autofluorescence, chemical and heat resistance, and optical clarity essential for these applications. Leveraging our proprietary in-house glass structuring process, we can rapidly build flow cells with precision, flatness, optical clarity, and durability, ensuring high-quality performance for our customers.
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Devices for in-vitro diagnostics
SCHOTT's glass is instrumental in advancing in-vitro diagnostics. Our D 263® and BOROFLOAT® materials offer the optical clarity and biocompatibility crucial for diagnostic applications. Using our proprietary glass structuring processes, we deliver the precision required to meet the most stringent requirements for FDA-approved diagnostic devices. Our portfolio of surface coatings provides solutions for a broad range of customer requirements and ensures optimal performance for individual assays.
Veterinarian microfluidic diagnostic device
The veterinary diagnostic market can be broken down into livestock and companion animal (pet) testing. In both fields microfluidic diagnostics are leading the way in reducing the time and cost of testing by supporting both better centralised automation as well as simplified low-cost point-of-care applications. Diagnostics for companion animals is tending towards automation of centralised labs with a focus on high throughput and fast turn-around. Typical companion animal diagnostics mirror that of human pathology testing such as routine biochemistry, immunodiagnostics, hematology, urinalysis, molecular diagnostics & urinalysis
Microfluidic life-science device
The life-science research field comprises a wide range of applications centred around the study of life and organisms including human biology. Microfluidic life-science devices can offer significant advantages over traditional bench top processes, such as high-throughput and repeatability coupled with reduced cost and complexity. Aside from speed and cost advantages the highly controlled environment onboard lab-on chip devices also yield other practical, physical and technological advantages for studying biological systems. Additionally, microfluidic life-science devices are often designed to be compatible with other apparatus and instruments making them easy to integrate into existing infrastructure as well as computerised or automated workflows.
Microfluidic agro-food testing
Microfluidic devices offer several advantages for the agro-food sector when compared to conventional bench-top methods. These advantages include low cost, short turn-around time, high sensitivity, small form factor, high-throughput as well as reduced use of reagents and samples. In addition, many lab-on-chip solutions substantially reduce the skill level required to conduct testing. Microfluidic devices are able to conduct measurements from small volumes of complex fluids efficiently and quickly. This makes them well suited to rapidly and sensitively detect pathogens, toxins, chemical residues, and heavy metals in food. The ability to automate multiple complex operations in one multiplexed device can enable simultaneous detection of multiple targets of different type, further simplifying testing regimes.
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