Stainless Steel Straight PDMS Couplers
- Product SKU: PN-STN-16G-20
- Category: Microfluidic Accessories, Needles & Couplers
Stainless steel connectors to connect your tubing to your PDMS microfluidic chips, perfect for use with silicone or Tygon microfluidic tubing.
Reusable and easily installable.
Make a reliable connection between a PDMS chip and soft-walled tubing with these stainless steel connectors.
- Material: 304 stainless steel
- Autoclavable, reusable
- Recommended use: tubing to chip connections with silicone or Tygon tubing (see the table below for tubing ID correspondence)
- Suitable for punched holes in PDMS chips
- Length: 15 mm
- Blunt tip (90° cut)
Choose between packs of 20 or 100 units of stainless steel couplers, each 15 mm long.
These fitted stainless steel fluidic couplers are used to connect your soft-walled tubing to your PDMS device, according to the following table:
| Coupler gauge | Coupler OD | Coupler ID | Tubing ID range | Puncher size |
| 16G | 1.65 mm | 1.20 mm | 1.2 to 1.6 mm | 1.5 mm |
| 18G | 1.24 mm | 0.85 mm | 0.85 to 1.2 mm | 1.0 mm, 1.2 mm |
| 20G | 0.89 mm | 0.58 mm | 0.6 to 0.85 mm | 0.75 mm |
| 23G | 0.64 mm | 0.33 mm | 0.4 to 0.6 mm | 0.5 mm |
| 25G | 0.51 mm | 0.25 mm | 0.3 to 0.45 mm | 0.5 mm |
Tips:
- Always choose the coupler size with the closest OD above your soft-walled tubing ID
- These values only apply for durometer Shore A, 15 sec up to 80 (Tygon ND 100-80).
20x or 100x Stainless steel straight couplers
| Material | 304 stainless steel |
| Coupler gauge sizes | 16G, 18G, 20G, 23G, 25G |
| Shape |
Total length 15 mm Blunt-ends (90° cut) |
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