Description
DESCRIPTION Liquid TEM for Everyone 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. If you have access to a TEM, you can do liquid TEM. 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 Nanomaterials Characterization Using the K-kit 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. CaCO3 nanoparticle additives in milk TiO2 and ZnO in sunscreen lotion SiO2 nanoparticles in polishing slurry Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in blood Tools for Easy Loading and Mounting The K-kit container is designed to facilitate K-kit loading and mounting.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. K-kit Complete Toolbox Set, includes a pack of 4 carriers, 0.2µm 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)
1 4-pack of single-use 0.2µm K-kit carriers.
