The P-2000, developed by Sutter Instruments, is a micropipette puller designed to enable the use of quartz glass in micropipette applications by utilizing a CO 2 laser as a heat source.

Somewhat simplified, you can say that the pipette is manufactured by heating up a glass tube and pulling it to the breaking point. This produces a very thin and tapered tip.

(a) From top to bottom: the carbon pipe tip of the CNP buckles when pushed against the wall of a glass pipette and recovers its initial shape once the force is removed. (b) From top to bottom: a CNP ...