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Gas Permeable Heat Seal

Heat sealing woven membrane that seals to PP, PS, and COC plates. Fit for cell culture, overnight incubations, insect and seed storage.

  • Peelable, pierceable
  • Gas permeable (due to small pore size)
  • Limited evaporation
  • Available in sheet and roll format

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Product Details

Heat sealing offers a 100% effective method for plate sealing for a complete seal integrity, as well as being quick and cost effective. Our Gas Permeable Heat Seal is made from a woven material and is designed for use in cell culture, due to its porous nature. The small pore size (<20 µm) of this material enables gas exchange, per 24 hours of >20g/m², whilst evaporation is reduced to a minimum.

The seal is compatible with polypropylene, polystyrene and cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plates. It can be removed by peeling, or it can be pierced with a pipette tip manually, using a liquid handling robot or with our Pierce Plate (4ti-0398).

Gas Permeable Heat Seal can be utilized for effective overnight incubations, during which it demonstrates significant reductions in evaporation compared to lids. It can also be used for insect and seed storage as it enables gas exchange, whilst providing an inert surface with no adhesive to interfere with the well contents.

This seal is available as sheets, for use with manual and semi-automated sealers, such as our Semi-Automated Sheet Heat Sealer. Also available in multiple roll formats compatible with specified automated heat sealers, such as our Automated Roll Heat Sealer.

Key Features

Quality & Properties
  • Peelable
  • Pierceable
  • Seal integrity range: -20°C to 80°C
  • Gas permeability rate: 180m³/m²/day
  • Moisture vapor transmission rate: 20g/m²/day
  • Autoclavable (121°C)
  • Free from DNase, RNase, human genomic DNA, and endotoxin/pyrogen
Use
  • Seals polypropylene, polystyrene and cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plates
  • Suitable for cell culture, overnight incubations, as well as insect and seed storage
Options
  • Sheet format: 125 x 78mm, to fit all standard SBS footprint PCR and qPCR plates, microplates, assay and storage plates, from 12 well to 1536 well
  • Roll format: available in a variety of roll dimensions, to suit your choice of automatic heat sealing equipment
  • Available gamma irradiated from stock: gamma irradiated variations have /ST added to the end of their product code
Ordering Information

Part Numbers

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Gas Permeable Heat Seal
Heat sealing membrane, limits evaporation, peelable, pierceable; suitable for cell culture, seed and insect storage
4ti-0598roll (610m x 78mm, approx. 5,000 seals)¹; 1 roll
4ti-0598/122roll (122m x 78mm, approx. 1,000 seals)¹; 1 roll
4ti-0598/Ssample roll (5m x 78mm)¹; 1 sample roll
4ti-0599roll (500m x 115mm, approx. 6,200 seals)²; 1 roll
4ti-0599/Ssample roll (5m x 115mm)²; 1 sample roll
4ti-0597sheets (125 x 78mm); 100 sheets
4ti-0597/STgamma irradiated, sheets (125 x 78mm); 10 x 10 sheets

¹Compatible with our Automated Roll Heat Sealer / Thermo Fisher ALPS 300™ and ALPS 3000™ / KBiosystems Wasp™ / KBioscience FlexiSeal and Cube

²NOT compatible with Agilent (Velocity 11) PlateLoc®

Resources

Brochures & Sell Sheets

Brochures & Sell Sheets
Heat Sealing Comparison and Compatibility