Patent ID: 8470109
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: B01L,B05C,B05D,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of securing a biological specimen to an analytic substrate, comprising: providing an analytic substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; providing a quantity of a liquid, fluid, gel, or semi-solid coating composition comprising a silane, siloxane, silicone, silicon fluid, polysiloxane, fluorosilane, organosilane, organofunctional silane, or a combination thereof; wiping the quantity of the liquid, fluid, gel, or semi-solid coating composition on at least a portion of the upper surface and/or lower surface of the analytic substrate forming a coated analytic substrate having a coated surface comprising the liquid, fluid, gel, or semi-solid coating composition thereon; and applying a biological specimen to the coated surface of the coated analytic substrate wherein the biological specimen becomes bound to the coated analytic substrate via the liquid, fluid, gel, or semi-solid coating composition of the coated surface, wherein the liquid, fluid, gel, or semi-solid coating composition is applied to the analytic substrate at the same point-of-use where the biological specimen is placed on the coated analytic substrate; and wherein the method is absent a step of rinsing the coated analytic substrate before the biological specimen is placed on the coated surface of the coated analytic substrate.