Tecan AC Extraction Plate for LC-MS sample preparation

Tecan’s AC Extraction Plate is an automation-friendly product designed to streamline sample preparation for LC-MS analysis of small molecules. The plate, which is based on TICE (Tecan Immobilized Coating Extraction) technology, reduces the sample preparation process to a convenient ‘pipette and shake’ routine.

The product is a 96-position, deep-well microplate, with the inner surface of each well coated with a highly controlled layer of TICE material. This coating efficiently extracts low molecular weight analytes - such as vitamin D and testosterone - from aqueous solutions, eliminating the need for the time-consuming filtration, centrifugation and evaporation steps that are often integral to other methods.

Sample preparation with the plate can also be easily automated, providing a rapid, walk-away solution for the extraction of small molecules from biological fluids for LC-MS analysis.