Tabletop Ultracentrifuge

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ Optima Max-TL tabletop ultracentrifuge delivers high functionality and efficiency within a compact and quiet package. Joining the Optima line of floor and tabletop ultracentrifuges, this entry-level instrument offers context-sensitive onscreen help and is available in multiple native languages to meet a full range of separation requirements in a user-friendly environment.

Users can set multiple programs of up to five steps each using an easily navigated, full-color LCD touch-screen accessible in nine languages: English, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese (simplified). Fully compatible with the manufacturer’s TL labware and fixed-angle, swinging bucket and unique near-vertical tube (NVT) rotors, the instrument can be used in applications including separation of subcellular particles, viruses and viral particles, rate-zonal separation of proteins in sucrose gradient, separation of lipoproteins, pelleting of RNA through a CsCl gradient, isopycnic separation of plasmid DNA and others.