Specimen Preparation

Amorphous Nickel-Titanium Holey Foil Grids for Cryo-EM (ANTcryo™) features high porosity, excellent conductivity, and user-friendly advantages.

Ethane-Temperature Controlled Vitrobot Dewar for controlling temperature of liquid ethane for plunge freezing.  

Innovative tweezers assembly by NanoSoft, for plunge-freezing Cryo TEM FEI Vitrobot sample preparation systems.

Premium quality Autogrid Rings and C-Clips from NanoSoft for clipping cryo-EM grids. Compatible in most Cryo-EMs and autoloader systems. The FIB Autogrid Ring design delivers excellent usability. It features an angled face around the entire circumference on the "backside", providing an...

'Intro to Cryo-EM' Consumables Kit including a selection of Cryo TEM grid boxes, Dumont Tweezers, with a pack of ten R2/2 Quantifoils.

A well-priced, robust dewar from NanoSoft with metal parts for cryo-EM sample preparation.

Metal grid storage boxes designed for use in cryogenic conditions.

Tested for biodegradability and durability, these plastic grid boxes are available in 3 different colours for maximum contrast. Suitable for use with both unclipped and clipped standard 3 mm electron microscopy grids.  Special prices valid while stocks last. 

Hybrid cryo-EM sample storage boxes from NanoSoft, with unqiue serial number and dedicated wells for both unclipped grids and autogrids. Available with pin lid or without pin lid.

Bulk storage grid boxes from NanoSoft with unique serial number designed to accomodate an entire 12-grid cassette.

NanoSoft pin lids for use with NanoSoft hybrid cryo grid boxes and NanoSoft bulk storage cryo grid boxes. 

Easy-to-use lid from NanoSoft for grid boxes during vitrification sessions to protect already frozen grids until the session is complete.

The NanoSoft Autogrid Inspection Tool enables a final check of clipping quality before loading autogrids into the autoloader cassette.

Custom-designed ethane condenser from NanoSoft, designed to securely fit the NanoSoft Spider (AGK114), or the FEI/Thermofisher equivalent. 

NanoSoft's Igloo is designed for use with the Vitrobot vitrification dewar in order to reduce cryo-EM sample contamination and creates an overall easier sample preparation process.

Optimised for the clipping workflow, the NanoSoft clipping station provides easy and efficient clipping of Cryo-EM grids for Thermo Fisher autoloader-based microscopes.

Compact-design clipping tool from NanoSoft. Compatible with the NanoSoft clipping station (AGK130) and the Thermo Fisher clipping station.

The C-Clip bottoming tool from NanoSoft provides an easier and more efficient way to 'bottom' the C-Clip at the tip of the barrel of a clipping tool prior to clipping. Special prices valid while stocks last. 

These reverse-action autogrid tweezers from NanoSoft maintain the same tip geometry as traditional autogrid tweezers, but with a reverse-action handle. Special prices valid while stocks last. 

PELCO Cryo Chamber specifically designed for cryo specimen preparation.

These aluminium specimen mount pins are suitable for mounting samples for cryo-ultramicrotomy.

These freezer hats for holding specimens in high pressure freezing equipment are available in brass only.

Mini pin stubs are ideal for small samples, or parts which need to be examined individually.

Blotting filter paper for FEI Vitrobot, or Leica EM GP.