Cultureware

Glass Bottom Dishes

The preferred culture dish of scientists worldwide, Mattek’s Glass Bottom Dishes provide the crisp and vivid optics of a glass coverslip, in standard sized cell culture dishes.

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Glass Bottom Dishes

Mattek glass bottom dishes combine the convenience of standard size 35 mm and 50 mm disposable plastic petri dishes with the optical quality of glass, providing researchers, students, and engineers with vivid microscopic images.

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Dish Types

35 mm
50 mm
60 mm
100 mm
Specialty Dishes also available

FAQs

Microwell Diameter

For most applications, a 14 mm glass microwell is sufficient. Choose the 20 mm diameter microwell to maximize viewing area, or a 10 mm diameter if your application is cell-limited or to limit media or reagent consumption.

Glass Thickness

For most applications, No. 1.5 is the preferred coverslip thickness, especially for optimizing image quality with high numerical aperture objectives. The No. 0 coverslip gives you the most working distance and may be useful for thicker specimens.

Coatings and Special Orders

Mattek offers Poly-d-lysine and collagen-coated 96-well plates as special order products. We also recommend the following coatings from Advanced BioMatrix:

PureCol® Type I Collagen https://advancedbiomatrix.com/purecol/

Type IV Collagen https://advancedbiomatrix.com/typeiv-lyophilized.html

Fibronectin https://advancedbiomatrix.com/fibronectin-solution.html

Vitronectin https://advancedbiomatrix.com/vitronectin-solution.html

Poly-D-Lysine https://advancedbiomatrix.com/polydlysinesolution.html

Poly-L-Lysine https://advancedbiomatrix.com/polyllysinesolution.html

Poly-L-Ornithine https://advancedbiomatrix.com/polylornithinesolution.html

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