Silica Microspheres

Inorganic supports, such as silica microspheres, have become increasingly important for a variety of applications. They offer the combined benefits of working with a bead platform and the unique properties of a silica substrate, including: flexibility, large specific surface area, improved binding kinetics over planar surfaces, robust statistics, flexible silanization chemistries, unique refractive index and density, low autofluorescence, low nonspecific binding of many biomolecules, hydrophilicity, and easy manipulation.

Bangs offers a range of bead sizes (from ˜0.15µm-9µm) to meet the requirements of a variety of applications

SiO2 with natural hydroxyl or silanol (SiOH) surface groups for adsorption of nucleotides with low protein binding

SiO2 with carboxyl (COOH), amine (NH2) or streptavidin surface groups for the covalent attachment of biomolecules.

Silica Bind-IT are pure SiO2 microspheres with a pre-activated surface that allows ready binding of antibody without sacrificing stability.