Dispendix GmbH

Dispendix GmbH, located in Stuttgart, develops, produces and sells systems and consumables for non contact nanoliter dispensing applications.

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, a novel liquid handling technology, called I-DOT („Immediate-Drop- On-Demand technology“) has been developed. Goal was to find an effi- cient, flexible alternative non-contact solution for liquid handling tasks for nano- and microliter volumes. I-DOT consists of an instrument (I-DOT One) and associated consumables (I-DOT Silica Plate). Our vision is to establish a simple and elegant gold-standard in non-contact liquid handling.

There is increasing cost pressure in the life science industry, and the trend in liquid handling towards smaller sample volumes. No dispensing or pipetting systems are on the market, which meet the requirements regarding quality, robustness, speed and flexibility. Due to the low processing speed and the cost of consumables of existing systems, an alternative to existing technologies on the market is sought.

The I-DOT system for the first time allows the simple and robust handling of volumes below one microliter. Due to the scalability of the technology, the use of common laboratory standards and the small size of the device, I-DOT can be used in every laboratory, but it is also suitable for integration into fully automated screening systems.