On behalf of its parent company SiMPore,
Inc., TEMwindows.com is pleased to introduce the SepCon™ Spin Column,
a revolutionary separation device that makes it possible to separate nanoparticles
that differ in size by 5 nm or less. Designed specifically for nanoparticle
separations, it utilizes SiMPore's ultrathin silicon nanoporous UltraSM®
membrane. Unlike conventional polymer membranes, SepCon™ can fractionate
nanoparticles between less than 5 and 40 nm with recovery of both fractions
and will enable nanoparticle researchers to remove unused reactants from syntheses,
purify samples through buffer exchange, and fractionate particles in a mixture
according to size.
TEMwindows.com will be showcasing the new SepCon™ Spin Column at the
upcoming 2009 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts,
November 30th through December 4th. The company expects to begin taking orders
for the new product in January 2010. In the interim, interested researchers
are invited to participate in a free product trial program (see www.simpore.com
for details).
At the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting, TEMwindows.com will also be exhibiting its full
line of pure silicon UltraSM®, silicon oxide, and silicon nitride TEM windows.
The company recently launched a 20 nm thick silicon nitride grid and added 100
mm frame options for many of its products. Compared to widely used carbon windows,
UltraSM® TEM Windows have uniform thinness, improved stability, and can
handle extensive plasma cleaning.
TEMwindows.com is proud to offer its TEM windows portfolio through six distributor
partners: Structure Probe, Inc. (West Chester, PA, USA; www.2spi.com), PLANO
GmbH (Wetzlar, Germany; www.plano-em.de), NAMOTEC (Seongnam-city, South Korea;
www.namotec.com), Agar Scientific (Stansted, United Kingdom; www.agarscientific.com),
Alliance Biosystems (Osaka, Japan; www.alliance-bio.com), and OctaLAB (Singapore;
www.octalab.com). Each brings a solid reputation in the TEM market and a commitment
to offering leading-edge products to their base of customers.
“SiMPore is committed to providing imaging and analysis tools for materials
researchers that leverage the key advantages of our membrane technology. We
are confident that our new SepCon™ Spin Column will significantly improve
the ability to separate and purify nanoparticles,” said Rick Richmond,
CEO.
SiMPore Inc. is a Rochester, New York-based nanotechnology company which designs
and produces membranes and membrane-enabled products based on its unique patent-pending
platform technology—the UltraSM® ultra-thin silicon membrane. The
UltraSM® membrane is the world’s first membrane to offer both tunable
nanometer-scale thickness and pore size. SiMPore is developing products that
take advantage of these one-of-a-kind features, including filters for separating
and concentrating biological molecules and nanoparticles, cell culture substrates
for growing cells, and electron microscopy grids for preparing and imaging samples
at the nanoscale.
Posted November 20th, 2009
