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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2019
Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E. V, Munich, DE;
Heiko Zimmermann, Sulzbach, DE;
Julia Neubauer, Wuerzburg, DE;
Ina Meiser, Sulzbach, DE;
Michael Gepp, Sulzbach, DE;
Abstract
A sample holder devicewhich is designed to hold biological samplesincludes a base bodyhaving at least one wallwhich is arranged to delimit a sample receptacle, wherein the at least one wallincludes, at least on a surface facing the sample receptacle, a planar, carbon-based material which is impermeable to a liquid in sample receptacle, wherein the carbon-based material has such a high carbon content that the carbon-based material is opaque and electrically conductive. The sample holder device includes, e.g., a dish, in particular petri dish, a planar substrate, a multiwell plate, a sample beaker, in particular in the form of a beaker glass, a sample tube, in particular in the form of a test tube or a tube for cryopreservation (cryovial), and/or a hollow fiber. Methods for using the sample holder device are also described.