Sample Homogenization Beads for Use With the MiniBeadbeater

Sample Homogenization Beads designed for use with the MiniBeadbeater are offered in 2 and 7 milliliter vials with screw cap closure. With multiple bead types – including high density zirconia/silica beads for disruption of tougher tissues or spores.

Made from world-class premium zircon through an advanced high temperature sintering process, our medium density medias are an excellent alternative to glass milling medias, offering maximum milling efficiency while decreasing wear.

Glass Beads

Glass beads with a density of 2.5 grams/cc are the primary beads used for “beadbeating.” They come preloaded into self-standing 2 and 7 milliliter tubes as well as one pound bottles, for convenient beadbeating use.

For rapid plating of yeast and bacteria, add a few sterile glass beads to solid nutrient medium in a plate, shake vigorously, then use a Mini-Beadbeater in dry grinding mode at ambient or liquid nitrogen temperatures to quickly pulverize cells into their desired size.

Pre-filled microvials from some vendors allegedly contain unique combinations of sizes and types of beads for improved cell lysis, but without comparative data available the ‘improvements’ may only be marginal. You’d save both money and time by following our guidelines above, loading your vials yourself using commercial or Do-It-Yourself bead loaders; loading only each vial once is enough! YSZ beads are high purity zirconia silica beads designed with low melting point composition suitable for numerous applications including microbiology assays

Perler af zirkonia/silica

Zirconia beads are created through a process that begins with powdered ZrO2 and SiO2. After being refined in slurry form, this mixture goes through bead forming machine for shaping into zirconia silicate beads with low porosity characteristics for use with tough tissue samples or spores. Spherical in shape and generally off-white in hue, one pound bottles of these spherical zirconia silicate beads can be purchased.

Zirconia media can be found in various mill machines, including attritors. This high-quality media is designed to increase efficiency during grinding processes while being an economical alternative to glass or alumina beads. When selecting zirconia beads for use in your mill machine, make sure they match up with the size of parts being processed in it.

Silica gel packs can provide an effective method to safeguard various objects against moisture damage. For example, they’re great at keeping silver jewelry or paper money from tarnishing quickly – or protecting photos or scrapbooks from becoming water damaged.

Skarpe partikler af siliciumcarbid

Silicon carbide (commonly referred to as beta-SiC, -SiC and alpha-SiC) is an extremely hard material which ranks on the Mohs scale between soft alumina (9) and diamond (10). Silicon carbide has become an indispensable material in industrial products that require thermal and mechanical performance, such as abrasives, refractories, ceramics and cutting tools for various industrial uses.

This angular material features sharp points and edges that make it highly effective in rock tumbling, gem cutting and lapidary work of all sorts. Furthermore, its low cost compares favorably with other abrasives like tungsten carbide.

For tissue and cell culture sample isolation, MP Biomedicals’ FastPrep-24 5G Homogenizer loads an inert granular material into stainless steel homogenization tubes to produce brown-gray colored samples that can then be processed through centrifugation or filtration before being sent for cDNA synthesis. If necessary, prior to use this material can also be washed if required before being made available as either 25lb boxes or bulk 50lb bags; please inquire for pricing options.

Krom-stål-perler

Beadbeating of spores or tough tissue often necessitates using metal beads for more vigorous sample disruption, and Chrome Steel beads with density of 5.5g/cc are ideal. Chemically inert and resistant to fragmentation during beadbeating, these chrome steel beads offer much lower costs and easier access than their stainless steel counterparts.

Cryo-grinding or dry grinding with dense beads requires special reinforced polypropylene microvials or stainless steel screw cap microvials (see XXTuff products), to avoid contamination with rust. BioSpec Products’ chrome steel beads come with an easy way of doing this with their small rare-earth magnet provided in each pack – making the task simpler!

Glass beads differ from stainless steel in that they can be “disposable”, meaning no need for constant cleaning between applications. Only 1 to 3 beads should be placed into each 2 mL screw-cap microvial; typically only 1-3 are needed per application such as dry-grinding leaves and seeds or beadbeating hair; typically these one pound bottles.

Stainless Steel Beads

Stainless steel beads feature a density of 7.9g/cc and are composed of Type 316 stainless, the most corrosion-resistant alloy available. While these expensive beads can be cleaned and reused when used sparingly for dry grinding leaves and seeds, chrome-steel beads have similar features at an enormously cheaper cost, often considered disposable; chrome steel works very well when beadbeating but requires quick retrieval from lysate samples in order to avoid contamination from rust (use a rare-earth magnet for retrieval).

Garnet particles are chemically inert and resistant to fragmentation, unlike SiC or Zirconia which abrade during beadbeating and glass beads, making them superior as tough tissue samples require stronger beads for bead beating. They’re very dense too – often used instead of stainless steel beads when beadbeating for spores or most tissue samples as they accelerate lysis by reducing beadbeating abrasion; like SiC, however, Garnet particles can leave samples with yellow-gray hues; ideal combinations include hard centrrigugation of homogenate homogenate. Garnet comes prefiled into self-standing 2mL screw-cap microvials as well as one pound bottles to complete your homogenization needs! Garnet is available both prefiled selfstanding microvials as well as one pound bottles prefiled to use right out of the box when bead beating tough tissue samples like tough tissue samples whereas glass beads abrade during bead beating, therefore making this choice better than glass beads when beating tough tissue samples such as tough tissue samples from tough tissue samples from tough tissue samples that would normally abrade during bead beating; these dense microvials or one pound bottles for use and can accelerate beadbeating; it comes prefiled prefiled self-standing 2 mL screw cap microvials available as prefilled self-standing microvials as one pound bottles ready to use straightaway!