What material is used to make the blocks of the Mastercycler?
The block is made from a special aluminum alloy. The choice of material was made to ensure the lowest possible heat capacity (thus enabling fast temperature ramping), as well as sufficient hardness for a long service life (no deformation of the wells through heat and pressure and thus long-term optimum heat transfer from the block to the vessel). A teflon®-like coating (the so-called hard coating) ensures additional preservation of the block surface and also simplified decontamination.
