Plastic cuvettes having increased scratch resistance and methods for increasing the scratch resistance of same
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH
InventorsJosef Meindl, Oksana Pryshchepna
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Abstract
In the field of consumable materials for automatic analytical instruments, transparent plastic cuvettes having increased scratch resistance and a method for producing same includes contacting exclusively an outer surface of the transparent plastic cuvette with a liquid comprising at least one surfactant or with a triglyceride and subsequently drying the outer surface such that scattered-light optical properties of the transparent plastic are not adversely affected.
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A measuring cuvette consisting of transparent plastic wherein an outer surface of the measuring cuvette has been contacted exclusively with a liquid consisting of water and at least one surfactant and has been subsequently dried to increase the scratch resistance of the measuring cuvette.
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