Heat sealing offers a 100% effective method for plate sealing for a complete seal integrity, as well as being quick and cost effective. Easily pierceable clear heat seal is an optically clear polyester backed film, forming a pierceable seal to polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene and cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plates. The optical clarity of this seal enables its use for sealing plates required for imaging use, including fluorescent detection methods such as qPCR and colorimetric assays. Its pierceability renders it useful for automation and for use on needle, capillary and tip based liquid handling systems. It is effective on the ABI 3730 capillary sequencer, removing the need for the use of expensive septa mats. It forms a complete seal to a plate enabling moderately low and high temperature uses, including PCR when using a pressurised heated lid thermal cycler. It demonstrates a moderate solvent resistance and can be utilized for short term compound storage. This seal is available in multiple roll formats compatible with specified automated heat sealers, a perforated roll is available, for easy removal of sheets, for use with manual and semi-automated sealers.

• Permanent seal
• Easily pierceable with autosampler needles/ABI 3730
• Seal integrity range: -20 to 80°C (or 110°C when used with pressurised heated PCR lid)
• Moderate solvent resistance
• Optically clear
• Free from DNase, RNase, human genomic DNA, and endotoxin/pyrogen
• Seals polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene and cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plates
• Suitable for capillary sequencers and automated liquid handlers, e.g. ABI 3730
• Suitable for PCR and qPCR, and short term storage
• Non-sterile
• PCR0688, PCR0692 and PCR0690 are compatible with automated roll heat sealer (PCR0920)/Thermo Fisher ALPS 300™ and ALPS 3000™/KBiosystems Wasp™/KBioscience FlexiSeal and Cube
• PCR0696 and PCR0698 are compatible with Agilent (Velocity 11) PlateLoc®