Microscopy Sample Preparation Tools

Diamond Cleaving Knives
Diamond Cleaving Knives incorporate a knife with either a reinforced 60° or parallel diamond cutting edge. These are useful for scraping and shaving off sections of samples. The straight, parallel edge is recommended for scraping hard polymers. The angled edge has a reinforced beveled tip, and is recommended for fiber cuts and slicing.

Roller Knife
The Roller Knife is a dual-function tool that incorporates a razor knife and a roller wheel. This tool is useful for cutting, sectioning and flattening samples such as fibers, hairs and crystals.

Tweezers
Tweezers are available to manipulate small samples such as fibers, fabric, film and paper and to eliminate sample contamination caused by fingerprints. Tweezers are available with rounded tips or narrow needle tips.

Vacuum Tweezers Kit
The Vacuum Tweezers Kit consists of a small vacuum pump (110V), tubing and a hollow needle and is used to handle small pieces of sample, such as plastic film, without pinching, breaking, scratching or marring them. Several needle diameters are included to accommodate various sample sizes.

Micro Sample Preparation Tool Kit
The Micro Sample Preparation Tool Kit includes a Roller Knife and 5 replacement blades, one stainless steel tweezers, a pin vise with 10 straight needle replacements, one straight probe and an angled probe.

Microscopic Particle Separation Kit
The Microscopic Particle Separation Kit is used to separate traces of suspended solids from a liquid for their direct analysis by reflection-absorption micro spectroscopy. The mirrors with holes are used in a syringe holder (included in the kit). A primary application of this product is the isolation of trace contaminants in injectable drugs.