Stainless Steel Sample Beads for Tissue Homogenization

Our Stainless Steel Sample Beads from Luna Nanotech offer an exceptionally durable and effective solution for mechanically lysing a wide range of challenging biological samples. Crafted from Type 316 stainless steel, these beads boast superior corrosion resistance, ensuring longevity and reliability in your laboratory. With a high density of 7.9g/cc, they deliver significant impact force, making them particularly effective for tough plant materials such as leaves and seeds, as well as resilient animal tissues.

Key Features:

• Premium Material: Made from Type 316 stainless steel, known for its excellent corrosion resistance, durability, and autoclavability, allowing for potential reuse after proper cleaning.
• High-Density Impact: The 7.9g/cc density provides powerful mechanical action, crucial for efficient disruption of hard and fibrous samples.
• Optimized Sizing for Diverse Applications: These stainless steel sample beads are available in a range of diameters, each suited for specific homogenization needs:
  • 1.5 mm beads: Excellent for the fine homogenization of tough microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, yeast, spores) and small, fibrous plant tissues where a finer particle size is desired.
  • 2.3 mm beads: A versatile size commonly used for a broad spectrum of tough plant materials like leaves, root tips, and seeds, as well as general animal tissues (e.g., muscle, liver, brain), providing effective disruption for nucleic acid and protein extraction.
  • 3.2 mm beads: Ideal for more aggressive grinding of individual seeds, fibrous plant tissues, and larger, tougher animal tissues, delivering a stronger impact for challenging samples.
  • 6.35 mm beads: The largest size, designed for maximum mechanical force, perfect for pulverizing whole large seeds, very tough plant stems, roots, and demanding animal samples such as bone fragments or cartilage.
• Convenient Packaging Options: Offered in prefilled, self-standing 2 mL or 7 mL screw-on cap tubes for single-use applications, and in economical pre-aliquoted bottles for larger-scale laboratory requirements.

These stainless steel beads are an essential tool for researchers seeking highly efficient and reliable mechanical disruption for extracting nucleic acids, proteins, and other valuable biomolecules from the most resilient biological matrices.

Supplied by Luna Nanotech