The Interchangeable Coverglass Dish (ICD) is a reusable coverglass bottom culture dish that is fully autoclavable that decreases the cost of experiments from bulk purchasing culture dishes to only the cost of a coverslip. Available for both 30mm and 40mm circular coverslips.
Price range: $231.25 through $355.25
The Interchangeable Coverslip Dish has three variety’s available: two for 30mm coverslips, 35mm OD base for any 35mm dish holder, and 40mm OD base for the Stable Z system, one for 40mm coverslips which has a has a 50mm OD base.
The ICD for 30mm coverslips have a silicone o-ring built into an autoclavable, polycarbonate tube to ensure a leak proof seal without having to over-tighten the cylinder. The polycarbonate tube design ensures that no metals will come in contact with the media. The dish will use 30mm diameter, #1.5 thickness, low alkaline, Desag 263 coverslips, optimized for cell culture growth. The base is made of stainless steel. The polycarbonate tube height can be anything from a minimum of 10mm to a maximum of 100mm. The standard height is 10mm. Therefore, it can be used as both an interchangeable coverslip dish or a settling chamber. The dish can be sterilized by an alcohol rinse or, if needed, the dish is fully autoclavable.
The ICD for 40mm coverslips have a silicone o-ring built into an autocavable, Acetal tube to ensure a leak proof seal without having to over-tighten the cylinder. The Acetal tube design ensures that no metals will come in contact with the media. The dish will use 40mm diameter, #1.5 thickness, low alkaline, Desag 263 coverslips, optimized for cell culture growth. The base is made of Acetal. The Acetal tube standard height is 10mm. The dish can be sterilized by an alcohol rinse or, if needed, the dish is fully autoclavable.
Dish base
Threaded insert
Coverslips
O-rings
If your specimen needs warming the best way to achieve physiological temperature for the ICD is a peripheral warmer. The most technologically advanced, efficient, and cost effective way to warm an ICD with 30mm coverslips is the Bioptechs Stable Z Warmer. The Stable Z combines traditional peripheral temperature support with a patent applied for, Z axis stable, temperature transfer technique that also has many advantages over the traditional “stage warmer” approach.
Finally a glass bottomed culture dish that only costs pennies per experiment!
The Bioptechs Interchangeable Coverslip Dish (ICD) is a way to reduce the cost of using glass bottomed dishes and has many other advantages over pre-made glass bottomed dishes.
