Finally a glass bottomed culture dish that only cost 27¢ per experiment!

The Bioptechs Interchangeable Coverslip Dish (ICD) is not only a way to reduce the cost of glass bottomed dishes, it has many advantages over pre-made glass bottomed dishes.

• Separate coverglass enables the user to pretreat or condition the coverslip if necessary
• 25mm clear aperture for more translation room with todays large high N.A. objectives
• Accessories available for fluid perfusion and 2nd optical surface
• No metal components have contact with the specimen or media
• Threaded tube can be made any height for special applications
• All parts are autoclaveable. Therefore, you can control sterility
• Significantly reduced Z axis drift as compared to plastic
• Metal base transf ers heat from peripheral warmers
• 30mm German Desag glass ideal for cell culture
• O-ring sealed for positively preventing leaks
• Low cost coverslip replacement
• Fits any 35mm dish warmer
• Easy to assemble

The Interchangeable Coverslip Dish has a silicone o-ring built into an autoclavable, polycarbonate tube to ensure a leak proof seal without having to over-tighten the cylinder. The polycarbonate tube design ensures that no metals will come in contact with the media. The dish will use 30mm diameter, #1.5 thickness, low alkaline, Desag 263 coverslips, optimized for cell culture growth. The base is made of stainless steel. The polycarbonate tube height can be anything from a minimum of 10mm to a maximum of 100mm. Therefore, it can be used as both an interchangeable coverslip dish or a settling chamber. The dish can be sterilized by an alcohol rinse or if needed the dish is fully autoclavable.

Interchangeable Coverslip Dish Set, PN: 190310, which includes:
(1) Dish Base, (1) 10mm high threaded insert, and (2) o-rings, (50) 30mm coverslips.

(10+) Interchangeable Coverslip Dish Sets, (PN: 190310) If ordering 10+ dish sets you will receive a 19% Discount!.
Includes: (10+) Dish Base, ( 10+) 10mm Threaded Insert, (20+) o-rings, (500+ pk) 30mm Coverslips

30mm Coverslip (Qty 100), PN: 301313-0319

Recommended Temperature Control!

If your specimen needs warming the best way to achieve physiological temperature for the ICD is a peripheral warmer. The most technologically advanced, efficient and cost effective way to warm an ICD is the Bioptechs Stable Z Warmer. The Stable Z combines traditional peripheral temperature support with a patent applied for, Z axis stable, temperature transfer technique that also has many advantages over the traditional "stage warmer". Why do you want to warm the stage anyway? The goal is to warm the specimen! The last thing you want to do is warm the stage! Further details on the Stable Z are available at the Bioptechs Stable Z Warmer page. See if you don't agree that this is the way specimen warmers should have been made from the beginning!

Interchangeable Coverslip Dish warmed by a Stable Z Stage Adapter

Heated Lid for the Interchangeable Coverslip Dish

The Bioptechs ICD Heated Lid is an accessory for the Interchangeable Coverslip Dish (ICD) which enables the user to atmospherically seal an ICD, provide a gas such as CO² over the surface of the media in the ICD, prevent condensation from forming and allow trans-illumination on an inverted microscope. It is autoclavable, reusable and powered by a 2.5 volt source from either a battery or the auxiliary power supply. The heated lid comes with a power supply, a controller to adjust the temperature of the of the heated lid, an ICD key to aid in the removal of the threaded insert, two additional o-rings, and temperature dots. The temperature dots turn green only at 37°C, which allows you to initially set the heated lid to the proper temperature.	Interchangeable Coverslip Dish Heated Lid
Interchangeable Coverslip Dish with Heated Lid on Stable Z System	Interchangeable Coverslip Dish Heated Lid Components