Stencell - Solo

PDMS gets out of the clean room!

Product Description

Stencell Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layers, the no-brainer solution for all your micro-volume experiments, anywhere.

Features

• Choose a ready-to-use design or design your own shapes & stack them freely
• Production with highest standards of quality 
• Compose flow channnels and chambers, stacking different designs of Stencell
• Cost savings in experiments with super expensive reagents or very rare cell lines and in testing various experimental hypotheses
• Stencell is removable to trigger cell migration or to switch from flow chamber to open window

Fig.1. Removing a stencell to start a wound-healing experiment

The Designs

Each sheet is composed of 50 identical Stencells. Upon receipt of your purchase order, you will be able to choose either the same design for your 2 sheets, or 2 different designs for your 2 sheets (1 per sheet of 50).

1. Solo: 1 circular well - Diam. 12 mm
2. Quartet: 4 circular wells - Diam. 3 mm
3. Nonet: 9 circular wells - Diam. 3 mm
4. Presto: 2 oblong wells spaced by 0.35 mm
5. Allegro: 2 oblong wells spaced by 0.62 mm
   
   

Applications

• Confined experiments with Solo 
• Parallelized experiments with Quartet and Nonet
• Cell Migration and Wound-healing with Presto and Allegro

Performance Data

Fig.2. Confined Cos-7 cells stained for actin and nucleus.
Image: Pierre-Olivier Strale

Fig.3. Cos-7 cells colonizing a gap right after removal of the barrier.
Image: Pierre-Olivier Strale