High Performance Microplates
Advancing your assay performance and throughput™
Key Attributes of Aurora® Plates
High Light Transmittance: All Aurora plates exhibit high transmittance of UV, visible, and near-IR wavelengths of light. This transmittance is superior to other plastics used in optic quantitation, including polystyrene, and results in improved research results. The plates support an expanded optical window down to 240nm. These disposable plates are well-suited for absorbance measurements of nucleic acid, and protein concentrations at 260nm and 280nm and provide a less expensive alternative to fragile glass-bottom plates.
Low Auto-Fluorescence: COP has less than 1% the native auto-fluorescence of polystyrene when excited at UV wavelengths of light. The result for life-science researchers is better assay signal-to-noise performance and greater sensitivity.
Broad Chemical Resistance: Our products are chemically inert to many standard laboratory organics including DMSO, for example. This enables the use our plates for storage of chemical compound libraries used in screening applications for drug discovery.
Biocompatibility/Chemically Inert: No catalysts or reactive intermediates are used during the polymerization process and manufacturing of our plates. This results in a very inert surface. Additionally, there are no heavy metals or oxidizers present to react with your compounds or biological materials.
Thermal Stability: Our plates exhibit excellent mechanical memory from -80°C to
+120°C. This wide range of stability is conducive to cold storage as well as thermal-cycling.
Rigidity for Mechanical Stability: COP’s material hardness and a 2.2GPa rigidity resists microplate surface curvature by mechanical handling or heat treatments below 120°C.
No non-specific Protein Binding: The COP surface of an untreated microplate is hydrophobic and behaves chemically like untreated pure polypropylene and proteins are not absorbed onto the surface. An untreated COP plate is an ideal platform for highly sensitive enzyme based assays. Surface treated plates are available to enable specific high-binding of protein material.