Plasma Cleaning

Natural.  Safe.  Reliable.  Practical.

IonField Systems products employ a patented process that converts room air into a room temperature energized gas (plasma) that oxidizes organics and biomolecules on contact. 

Unlike traditional solvent-based tip and plate washing methods, plasma cleaning does not simply dilute contaminants, but removes them at a molecular level, allowing laboratories to reuse pipette tips and plates.

 

How it Works

Our innovative technology uses a dielectric barrier discharge (or gap plasma) generated in small, well-like cavities packaged in a product that looks like a deep well microplate with a standard SBS footprint.

Lowering tips into the cavities triggers the air ionization and resulting molecular breakdown of biological and organic contaminants on both the exterior and interior surfaces of the tips. For plate cleaning, the PurePLATE blows the ionized air over the surface of the microplates.

About Plasma Cleaning

Natural 

Plasma is often referred to as the fourth state of matter, distinct from the solid, liquid, and gaseous states.  Plasmas exist in neon and fluorescent tubes, some TVs, in the crystal structure of metallic solids, and other phenomena and objects.

Safe 

The dielectric barrier discharge plasma is produced at near room temperature, and it draws very little power. The generated plasma is enclosed within a self-cleaning chamber. All by-products of the cleaning process are effectively trapped and vented to an external exhaust system.

It’s the same science that produces streetlights, fluorescent lightbulbs, and many other technologies that are a part of your everyday life.

Reliable 

The unique combination of oxidizing free radicals and metastable atomic species formed within the cleaning station’s cold-plasma field promotes the nearly instantaneous conversion, volatilization, and ultimate removal of potential chemical or biological contaminants from the surfaces of tips and plates. Plasma will flow easily into all microscopic surface imperfections and cavities, reducing variations due to random surface properties.

Practical 

The integration of our products into Lab Operations offers multiple benefits. Considerable resources within a lab and from the infrastructure supporting the lab are no longer needed. Some of those resources are financial – direct and indirect costs for plastic lab ware purchases, storage, use, and disposal decrease dramatically. Some of those are operational – staff can focus more on accomplishing their role in the projects they are assigned and less on managing the plasticware their projects consume.