Raw material characteristics of cell factory systems

 The cell factory systems are an important cell culture container, which is processed from polystyrene raw materials and plays an important role in the large-scale culture of cells. So, what are the characteristics of this raw material? 

Polystyrene is one of the five general-purpose plastics, which is polymerized from styrene monomer. Its characteristics are as follows:

1. Light weight, less water absorption, colorless and transparent, brittle, glass-like, tasteless and non-toxic;

2. Because the benzene ring increases the steric barrier of macromolecules and restrains molecular movement, the surface hardness and rigidity are high, and the dimensional stability is good; but the brittleness and impact strength are small, and the wear resistance and scratch resistance are poor.

3. Excellent electrical insulation performance, especially high frequency insulation;

Cell Factory Systems

Cell Factory Systems

4. The product has low impact strength and poor wear resistance;

5. Good coloring, surface decoration and radiation resistance, but poor sunlight resistance;

6. Poor sunlight resistance, excellent water, acid and alkali resistance, but poor oil resistance, soluble in aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ketones and esters.

7. The molding performance is very good, and it can be processed by injection, extrusion molding, blow molding, thermoforming, foaming, bonding, coating, welding, machining, hot stamping, printing and other general thermoplastic molding processing methods.

The above are the characteristics of the raw materials of the cell factory. In addition, polystyrene is different from the glass material, and the surface itself is hydrophobic. Therefore, it must be specially modified to be suitable for the better growth of adherent cells.