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 so as to ensure on the one hand the lowest possible heat capacity (thus enabling fast retempering) and on the other hand 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.
