MicroTools™ for Sample Measurement, Kit 3

Contain 20 tools for sample measurements. Two tools designs allow measurement of linear sample dimensions, and two allow measurement of both linear and angular dimensions. Use these tools to accurately measure small and fragile samples with minimal change of sample damage. Tool tips are 10µm thick and are both optically and x-ray transparent.

Kit consists of:

• 5x Horizontal MicroRuler™: 500µm wide horizontal rulers with 25µm graduations.
• 5x Vertical Microruler™: 1000µm long vertical rulers with 25µm graduations.
• 5x Large MicroProtractor™: 1000µm diameter tools for measuring angles and radial distances/dimensions, with 15º and 50µm graduations. Use to measure facet angles on crystals, the major and minor axes of ellipsoidal samples, or to specify the polar coordinates of multiple samples on a single tool.
• 5x Small MicroProtractor™: 320µm diameter tools for measuring angles and radial distances/dimensions, with 30º and 20µm graduations.
• 1x Handle

These patent-pending MicroTools™ have tips made from soft, flexible microfabricated polymer films. The curvature of the tips gives them rigidity, but they can still easily be flexed. Tools designed for use with samples from a few micrometers to millimeter in size. These tools will cause far less damage to fragile samples than metal tools, and they are optically and x-ray transparent. Each tool is mounted on a 0,64 mm diameter nonmagnetic solid stainless steel rod. Hold them in a standard 0,7 mm mechanical pencil (included with each kit), or in a micromanipulator for easy handling.

General use: MicroTools™ are used for manipulation and measurement of samples with sizes from a few micrometers to 1 mm in protein and small molecule crystallography, cell biology, histology, clinical diagnostics, entomology, archaeology and art restoration.