Starfrost®
Microscope slides with colour-printed marking areas.
Advantage
Our special colour-printed marking area is resistant to all common chemicals used in the laboratories. On our StarFrost® Slides the printed ink works as a spacer to prevent scratches or sticking of the slides when stacking or magazining them. Additionally, there has been a lower susceptibility to failure in automated laboratory systems noticed.
From the single side printing of our coloured marking area and our adjacent printed trademark “StarFrost®“, the user always knows the best surface to be used (NB: With our standard Floatglass it is the same side as the best wettable surface (airside) of the slide). The printing also makes it easier to focus the microscope on the used surface and even in the dark you can feel whether you have the correct side.
Quality
The KNITTEL StarFrost® slides are cleaned by a new, KNITTEL-developed, globally unique cleaning-procedure, which is also friendly to the environment. Our cleaning-process offers the best wettability and the optimum condition of the marking area.
Like our standard microscope slides, StarFrost® slides are available in the familiar edge formats, such as cut, ground 90° with or without clipped corners, ground 45° and bevelled edged StarFrost® slides. Like all our other microscope slides, we take care to achieve the best processing, washing, examination and packing.
Individuality
For larger demand, StarFrost® slides can be specially manufactured with customised printings, e.g. name of the customer, laboratory or hospital. We offer you detailed information about these specials on request!
Added value
All above mentioned microscope slides have hydrophilic surfaces and are commonly used for blood smears. For research on pathologic and cytologic samples a different product is needed. Unlike our standard slides these should have a special “activated” glass surface. In the past it was a lot of extra work for the laboratory staff to prepare hydrophobic slides e.g. with protein-glycerine, gelatine or Poly-L-Lysine.
KNITTEL StarFrost® adhesive slides have been developed by our company especially for pathological and cytological applications in biological-medical research and diagnostics in order to pick up cells and tissues easier and at lower cost.