Why use Peristaltic Pump?
Many microfluidic, cell culture, and biomaterials experiments require consistent liquid movement through tubing, chips, reservoirs, or small devices. Manual pipetting or gravity-driven flow can make it difficult to maintain repeatable flow, timing, and liquid exchange.
Peristaltic Pump provides a practical way to move fluids through flexible tubing without direct contact between the liquid and the pump mechanism. This makes it suitable for research workflows where simple, adjustable, and repeatable fluid delivery is required.
- Tubing-Based Fluid Delivery: Supports adjustable liquid movement through compatible flexible tubing.
- Useful for Microfluidics: Suitable for introducing aqueous solutions, buffers, media, and other compatible research fluids into microfluidic devices.
- Continuous or Intermittent Flow Operation: Useful for experiments requiring steady fluid delivery, circulation, washing, or perfusion.
- Reduced Direct Contact: The fluid remains inside the tubing, helping reduce direct contact with the pump mechanism.
- Small-Scale Testing: Useful for testing flow conditions, chip designs, hydrogel systems, and material behaviour before larger-scale experiments.
- Benchtop Design: Compact laboratory format suitable for research benches and routine experimental setups.
- Supports Method Development: Useful when optimising flow conditions, reagent delivery, washing steps, or device testing.
Technical Use
Peristaltic Pump is intended for research applications requiring adjustable tubing-based fluid delivery. It can be used with compatible tubing, reservoirs, microfluidic chips, and laboratory devices depending on the experimental setup.
It is particularly useful when researchers need to test how continuous or intermittent flow, media exchange, washing, or reagent delivery affects microfluidic devices, biomaterials, or cell culture experiments.
Key Use Benefits:
- Adjustable Liquid Movement: Helps deliver fluids at an adjustable pace during experiments.
- Microfluidic Device Testing: Suitable for moving fluids through microfluidic chips, tubing, and small-channel devices.
- Perfusion and Media Exchange: Can support research setups requiring continuous or intermittent media delivery or liquid exchange.
- Washing and Reagent Delivery: Useful for washing steps, buffer delivery, and reagent introduction.
- Hydrogel and Biomaterial Studies: Useful for moving low-viscosity or compatible hydrogel precursor solutions, buffers, or crosslinking solutions through tubing-based setups, depending on viscosity and tubing compatibility.
- Cell Culture and Organ-on-a-Chip Studies: Can be used in research setups requiring media flow or perfusion.
- Pre-Scale Testing: Useful for testing conditions before moving into more automated or larger-volume systems.
Applications
From microfluidic device testing to perfusion culture, Peristaltic Pump can support a range of laboratory applications:
- Microfluidics: For liquid delivery through tubing, chips, and small-channel devices.
- Perfusion Culture: For continuous or intermittent media flow in cell culture systems.
- Organ-on-a-Chip: For media or reagent delivery in microfluidic cell culture platforms.
- Washing Steps: For washing, buffer exchange, or rinsing in small-scale laboratory workflows.
- Reagent Delivery: For gradual addition of media, buffers, dyes, test compounds, or other compatible research solutions.
- Hydrogel and Biomaterial Studies: For moving low-viscosity or compatible hydrogel precursor solutions, buffers, or crosslinking solutions through tubing-based setups.
- Biomaterials Research: For testing flow behaviour of polymers, hydrogels, and particle-forming materials.
- Small-Scale Process Development: For testing liquid handling conditions before moving to larger or automated systems.
