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K-kit for Liquid TEM
The K-kit is a single-use sealable carrier with a microchannel inside.
It is made by ultraprecise MEMS micromachining from silicon, with a silicon nitride window.
It fits inside a standard TEM grid and thus into all commonly used TEM holders.
The K-kit advantage:
- Affordable and easy-to-use
- No installation hassle
- Image nano-objects in native state, no drying artifacts
- Sealable carrier takes liquid sample directly to TEM
- Fits all common TEM holders
- Can preserve the sample for future re-examination
Now you don’t need to invest tens and hundreds of thousands to see your liquid or wet TEM samples in their native state.
Fill, Seal and Observe
The K-kit is easy. Just touch the carrier to a drop of your liquid sample to have it drawn inside by capillary force.
Seal ends with vacuum-proof Torr Seal® glue.
Mount inside a standard grid for TEM.
Specifications
Window:
- Si3N4 thickness: 100nm
- Width: 24µm
- Length: 300µm
Channel:
- Width: 120µm
- Channel heights available: 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5µm
Materials:
- Substrate: Si wafer
- Channel walls: Si3N4
- Wafer bonding: SiO2
We offer the K-kit as a complete toolbox, set in a deluxe carrying case.
The tools, together with the carrier container, are designed to make loading and mounting of the K-kit carrier easy even for an inexperienced user.
The toolbox also includes a starter supply of the consumables, everything to get you started doing liquid TEM.
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| See the difference: NIST-traceable polystyrene beads in water are aggregated upon drying by conventional TEM preparation (left) but maintain their native state in K-kit carrier (right). Scale bar, 500nm. | |
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| CaCO3 nanoparticle additives in milk | TiO2 and ZnO in sunscreen lotion |
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| SiO2 nanoparticles in polishing slurry | Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in blood |
K-kit for Liquid TEM
Included in the Box:
- 1 Sample Loading Stand
- 1 Holder
- 1 Needle Pen
- 1 Gluing Stand
- 1 pack of 6 glass slides
- 1 Accessory Box (contains sealing and mounting glues, stirring sticks, and miscellaneous spare parts for the tools), and 1 4-pack of single-use 0.2 m K-kit carriers.
| Art. | Description | Unit | Price | Quantity | |
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| 120-1 | K-kit Complete Toolbox Set, includes a pack of 4 carriers, 0.2 m |
Each | € 1.186,30 |
| Art. | Description | Unit | Price | Quantity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120-61 | K-kit Carrier, channel height 2 m, pack of 6 |
Each | € 766,80 | ||
| 120-4 | K-kit Carrier, channel height 0.2 m, pack of 4 |
Each | € 531,70 | ||
| 120-41 | K-kit Carrier, channel height 2 m, pack of 6 |
Each | € 531,70 | ||
| 120-6 | K-kit Carrier, channel height 0.2 m, pack of 6 |
Each | € 766,80 |
