(Thomas Masters et al, August 2012)
Description:
This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-DC (*) for micro-fabrication stencils for printing protein patterns. The researchers conclude that MY Polymers stencils allow highly reproducible patterning of proteins over large surfaces with micron-size resolution.
(*) MY-133-DC is now obsolete, and MY Polymers recommends the use of MY-133-V2000 for this application.
(Srinivasan Ramachandran et al, July 2013)
Description:
This publication includes a description of using MY Polymers MY-133 (*) as a cladding material in high performance, LED-powered, waveguide-based, Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM).
(*) MY-133-V2000 is a new version of MY-133, with improved adhesion and mechanical properties.
(Wei Guo et al, June 2014)
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This publication describes the advantage of using cascaded cladding light strippers. Using a sequence of recoating materials, having a gradually higher refractive index, the heat is dissipated more uniformly along with the stripper. Instead of one high-temperature hot spot, there are several lower-temperature hot spots.
This design leads to lower temperatures, resulting in higher reliability.
Note: MY Polymers has a complete sequence of materials for cascaded light strippers (e.g. LM-142, LM-146, LM-150)
(Andrea Ravasio et al, November 2014)
Description:
This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-134 (index = 1.34) for constructing a nano-textured surface for studying cell interaction with the environment. The match of MY-134 with the index of cells enables a significant improvement in imaging quality (*).
In this publication, the surface is covered by micro-pillars.
(*) BIO-134 is a new version of MY-134, which was designed for biological applications. It has significantly reduced cyto-toxicity and fluorescence.
(Diane N. H. Kim et al, December, 2017)
Description:
This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-V2000 (Refractive Index = 1.33) for constructing microfluidic devices for biological applications (*). This enables index matching with an aqueous solution, which significantly reduces optical distortions in fluorescence imaging and in quantitative phase imaging. The publication includes a detailed description of the construction method.
(*) BIO-133 is a new version of MY-133-V2000, which was designed for biological applications. It has significantly reduced cyto-toxicity and fluorescence.
(Christian Niederauer et al, August 2018)
Description:
This publication describes the use of MY Polymers MY-133-MC (index=1.33) for producing a calibration slide that enables to characterize the excitation field in Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy. The slide is coated by gradually thicker layers of MY-133-MC. This is done by dip coating the slide several times, by partially overlapping layers of the material.
(MY-133-MC is Moisture Cured. There is no need for a UV light source and inert atmosphere).
(Hari Shroff et al, October 2020)
Description:
This publication shows how BIO-133 can be used to enable multiple applications in fluorescence imaging.
The research covers the following issues:
(1) Characterization of BIO-133 for optical imaging in microfluidic/immobilization setups;
(2) Showing that diffraction-limited and super-resolution imaging is possible when using this material;
(3) Showing that high-resolution light-sheet microscopy with water-dipping objectives is fully compatible with microfluidic setups, a goal thought by many in the field to be impossible;
