Composite material for thermal block of thermal cycler, and thermal block of low-specific-heat thermal cycler, manufactured using same
OwnerHan-Oh PARK, Jae-Ha KIM +1inventors
InventorsHan-Oh PARK, Jae-Ha KIM, Kug Jin YUN
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a composite material for a thermal block of a thermal cycler. The composite material has both low specific heat characteristics and remarkably improved thermal conductivity, and thus, when the temperature of a thermal block, which is manufactured using the composite material, rises and falls, deviation in temperature change rate between a plurality of unit thermal blocks and/or in different areas in a unit thermal block can be remarkably reduced such that a PCR thermal cycler including the thermal block can ensure reliability even in ultrafast PCR.
Claims15
A composite material for a thermal block of a thermal cycler, the composite material comprising:
- a powder metal that is a first metal or an alloy containing the first metal;
- and
- a metal nanowire having a core-shell structure in which a shell containing a third metal is positioned on a core containing a second metal.
A low-specific-heat thermal block of a thermal cycler, the thermal block comprising:
- tin or a tin alloy;
- and
- a silver-coated copper nanowire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.