The Sessile Drop
A sessile drop is one which is placed on the top of a surface. This form of our technology analyses the drop sample in this stationary state. These sessile drops are 4 microlitres or less insize. Comprehensive research into the way light is transmitted through a fully formed sessile drop sample has led Drop Technology to develop a microdrop analyser. This new Transmitted Light Drop Analyser (TLDA®), has many and varied applications ranging from its use as a classical microvolume UV-visible spectrophotometer to rapid methods for the analysis of nucleic acid and protein samples. Sample drops are loaded by standard pipetting techniques after which measurement time is merely a matter of seconds. So it is possible, with little training, to measure 96 samples in under one hour.