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After attending MJBizCon this past December, Sterlitech can attest that this year’s conference was bigger than ever with 40,000 people from 75 countries in attendance. Our Sales Engineer, Kensen Hirohata, managed our booth for the duration of the event with visits from other members of our staff, including Sara Azari, Application Engineer and Mark Spatz, President and Founder. Below are some of our key takeaways:

Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN) Membranes in Cannabis/Hemp Extraction

Let’s start 2020 with some reflection on our top 5 blog posts in 2019. Read on to find the answers to a couple of common FAQs and learn about one of nature’s most powerful filters: oysters!

1. Defining a Pore Size and Sterile Filtering; 0.2 Micron vs. 0.22 Micron. What’s the difference?

Find out what “pore size” really means, how you can test a filter’s performance with a bubble point test, and other factors you should consider when selecting the correct pore size for your application

Ultrafine particles (UFPs) belong to a class of primary air pollutants called particulate matter (PM). Other types of PM include coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). With a diameter of 0.1 micron or less, UFPs are the smallest known particles of PM. To put its relative size into perspective, UFPs measure 700 times smaller than the average diameter of a human hair.

The small size of UFPs and their vast numbers has led scientists to further investigate their properties and potential health impacts. Similar to other PM, UFPs can penetrate deep into the lungs; however, it’s unique ability to pass through the respiratory membrane, enter the bloodstream, and travel to the body’s organs (a process called translocation) poses further health concerns than its larger relatives.[1]

UFPs are a product of combustion processes emissions. Emission inventory studies have shown that road vehicles are the

Thank you for trusting Sterlitech for your laboratory and research needs. As 2019 comes to a close, we hope we’ve served you well in transforming your ideas into reality, and we look forward to the upcoming year. 

To give our employees time off to enjoy the holiday season, Sterlitech will be closed on the following dates:

• December 24 and 25, 2019: Christmas Holiday
• December 31, 2019: New Year’s Eve
• January 01, 2020: New Year’s Day

We like to remind our customers to be careful when feeding chemical solutions into their Membrane Filtration Systems. Ensuring that the chemical solutions are compatible with the wetted parts of these filtration systems or membranes will help you achieve consistent results and lengthen the service life of your systems to support future experiments.

We understand that assessing chemical compatibility is not easy as varying concentrations of the same solution can affect the wetted parts differently. To help you with this task, we’ve prepared a reference table outlining the compatibility of more than 80 chemical solutions to the materials found in the wetted parts of our systems. This should help determine whether any adjustments to your experiments are necessary to yield the best results.

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Adult patients suspected of HIV infection can be quickly diagnosed with rapid test kits, enabling them to immediately start antiretroviral treatment. However, infants, the most vulnerable demographic, do not have this same privilege. Rapid test kits are unreliable for infant diagnosis until they reach 18-months of age. ^[1] In place of rapid test kits, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends early infant diagnosis (EID) through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods to detect the virus through its genetic material. ^[2] However, the complexities of this method resulted in high turnaround times and loss of follow-ups which hindered its efficacy in diagnosing infants, especially those living

The Aquaporin Inside® HFFO2 is a cross flow membrane module containing Aquaporin Inside™ hollow fiber membranes. With Aquaporin proteins coated on the interior surface (lumen side) of the fibers, the feed solution is circulated in the lumen and the draw solution is circulated in the shell. To learn more about Aquaporin Inside HFFO2 please see our most recent

Since 2016 we have supplied over 1000 Sterlitech Kato-Katz Kit to clinicians and researchers—enough materials to perform over 500,000 tests. These kits are used to efficiently diagnose intestinal schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) in the field.

From their use in portable electronics and medical devices to electric vehicles, lithium (Li)-ion batteries have revolutionized our daily lives. Appropriately, the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to M. Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough, and Akira Yoshino for their major contributions in the development of the Li-ion battery.