Pure Fluorosurfactants can be mixed  with fluorinated oil to stabilize water-in-oil microdroplets generated by droplet microfluidics. Without the fluorosuractants added, droplets carried by conventional fluorinated oil may have occasional fusion. To solve this problem, fluorosurfactants have been widely used to stabilize the emulsion, i.e. the dispersed droplets.  The mechanism of droplet stabilization is based on the surface tension reduction on the water droplets by the fluorosurfactants. This product includes 50 g of 2% weight 008-FluoroSurfactant dissolved in fluorinated oils (HFE7500 or FC40).

Key Features 

• Chemically compatible with aqueous matrices and analytes including proteins, DNAs, and other common chemical species
• Biologically compatible with biological cells, animals, and bacerials
• Highly purified using high-tech procedures
• Reproducibility
• Chemical structure modifications

Typical Applications

• Encapsulating cells, proteins, DNAs, and RNAs
• High-throughput screening of conditions for protein crystallization
• Single-cell high-throughput genome sequencing
• Single-cell high-throughput screening
• Single cell analysis of protein
• Quantitative detection of single-cell protein expression
• Barcoding for single-cell transcriptomics in microdroplets
• Single cell enzymatic kinetics
• Droplet PCR