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Liquid Handling

Liquid Handling

Liquid handlers for advanced liquid handling tasks in laboratories: dosing, pipetting, diluting, and dispensing.

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Whatever your requirements – we have the right Liquid Handling solution for you

Find the liquid handling solution you need. Our portfolio of liquid handling instruments consists of intuitive standalone systems and more sophisticated dosing extensions.

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Metrohm – your expert for liquid handling

Precise dosing of a specific volume of a liquid is crucial for accurate results. With Metrohm, you can rely on Swiss quality and precision. Since our founding in 1943, we have developed into a trusted provider of consistent high-quality and robust instruments for reliable and precise chemical analysis.

From manual to semi-automated and fully-automated liquid handling workstations as well as liquid handling equipment, such as pipetting systems, get exactly what you need, including expert application and service support.

  • Get everything you need for your analyses from one provider
  • Rely on expert know-how wherever you are thanks to our global presence in over 80 countries

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Liquid handling – FAQs

Liquid handling aims at transferring a solution or reagent completely, accurately, and precisely from one place to another.

Liquid handling systems are used in different laboratory settings, such as for titrations, voltammetric or ion chromatographic measurements, and for sample preparation procedures. A wide range of applications and tasks, including dosing samples, supporting synthesis control or creating standards, use automated liquid handling techniques, such as pipetting, transferring, or diluting.

Liquid handling offers various benefits:

  • Improved reliability and precision of measurements
  • Small amounts can be dosed repeatably and accurately due to the high resolution
  • Better reproducibility of results
  • Traceable documentation of each dosing step
  • Reduced risk of human error
  • Automation options for increasing throughput

Contact your local Metrohm sales representative to discuss the advantages of liquid handling for your applications:

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Demonstration video of an automated OMNIS system for the analysis of galvanic baths. The system includes sample pipetting and different workstations for different analysis (acid-base, redox, argentometric, complexometric titrations).

Automating sample preparation steps and routine laboratory workflows, such as manual pipetting or serial dilution, offers many advantages over manual liquid handling:

  • Save time as everything is ready to use, e.g., mix eluents with the touch of a button
  • Get better results thanks to small dosing steps and repeatability
  • Avoid human errors
  • Increase safety in the lab due to less manual handling of harmful chemicals

Learn more about liquid handling automation:

Webinar: Automated liquid handling for accurate and reproducible results

Blog: Automated liquid handling – The key to accurate and reproducible results

Changing to automated liquid handling makes sense when you want to achieve one of the following goals:

  • Better accuracy, precision, and repeatability for the solutions handled
  • Higher throughput for additions, aliquoting, standard/eluent production
  • Reduction of human errors in liquid handling tasks
  • Increased lab safety due to less contact with chemicals and less broken glass
  • Traceable and compliant documentation of all dosing steps

 

Webinar: Automated liquid handling for accurate and reproducible results

Blog: Automated liquid handling – The key to accurate and reproducible results

Electronic piston burets are by far more accurate than any glassware usually used in an analytical lab. The resolution of the dosing drives in combination with the precise glass cylinders result in a piston buret that can easily fulfill the DIN EN ISO 8655 «Piston-operated volumetric apparatus» Part 3.

Depending on the chosen drive and cylinder, the smallest possible dosing step you can achieve with a Metrohm piston buret is 0.02 µL. This is 2,500 times smaller than the pharmaceutical definition of a drop (50 µL).

Blog: Automated liquid handling – The key to accurate and reproducible results

Due to the high accuracy and precision, Metrohm piston burets can be used in various application fields for automated liquid handling tasks:

  • Ion chromatography: Inline sample preparation techniques including dilution, dialysis and ultrafiltration, automated eluent production
  • Titration and synthesis: Titrant, solvent, or standard addition as well as sample preparation tasks
  • Voltammetry: Sample transfer and standard addition for automated CVS systems