Advalytix
Microfluidic processors
Advalytix is a spin-off from the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich/Germany, founded by Achim Wixforth who is now professor in Augsburg. In 2002, Wixforth also received the ‘Innovations Anerkennungspreis’ for the company’s ArrayBooster.
Advalytix was acquired by Beckman Coulter in 2009.
Jutta Müller (CEO)
Beckman Coulter Biomedical GmbH
Sauerbruchstraße 50
81377 Munich
Germany
Phone: +49-89-579589-0
Fax: +49-89-579589-3503
Advalytix’ microfluidics applications are powered by surface acoustic wave (SAW) transducers, which are similar to the ones integrated in cellular phones. Advalytix has protected its intellectual property by more than 30 patent applications and is beginning to license the non-invasive micro-agitation technology for applications in a broad variety of fields.
As fluid volumes approach the microliter range, mixing becomes in-creasingly difficult with conventional methods. Agitating small fluid volumes is precisely where SAW mixers are the technology of choice.
Advalytix’ SAW mixer chips efficiently agitate liquid volumes from 50 nanoliters to 500 microliters without coming into contact with the liquid. The surface acoustic waves propagate through plastics, glass and metals and agitate liquid volumes in standard formats such as microtiter plates or anayzer cuvettes.
Platforms:
Array Booster™
SlideBooster™
Related patents
- Method for analysing macromolecules
- Method for analysing macromolecules, analysis device and a method for producing an analysis device
- No English title available
- No English title available
- Device for measuring small amounts of liquid and/or movement of liquid on solid body surface, e.g. biological material, during
- Manipulation of very small fluid droplets and/or their contained particles involves generating opposing waves over chip surface
- Light ray manipulation method using liquid droplet as optical lens displaced relative to light path via surface acoustic waves
- To form a thin liquid film on a carrier, for chemical/biological sample analysis, the flat carrier is shrouded by a spaced cover
- Production of hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions on prestructurized surface, e.g. lab-on-chip for chemical or biological analys
- Cell analysis method comprises applying single cell in drop of solution to functionalized position connected to contact and meas
- No English title available
- Analyzing binding between macromolecules, useful for detecting nucleic acids by hybridization, where a labeled detector molecule
- Apparatus for the analysis of specific binding reactions, between protein or DNA probe macro molecules and a fluid containing sa
- Inspection of microarrays and monitoring e.g. hybridization of macromolecules on them, prepares spot patterns on surfaces to san
- A hybridizing process, for the study of biological material, the spots of an array on a microscope slide are in contact with a h
- Heating small amounts of liquid in pharmaceutical research and development and diagnosis uses ultrasonic transducer to heat liqu
- Analysis of different reagents, e.g. for the amplification of DNA sequences, has reagents bonded to spots on a chip each to be c
- Method and device for generating movement in a thin liquid film
- Method and device for blending small quantities of liquid in microcavities
- TEMPERING METHODS AND TEMPERING DEVICE FOR THE THERMAL TREATMENT OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF LIQUID