Conference Title

Location

Day Month Year

Summer School

Draft Program

Summer School on Printed Biosensors and Electronics
Date & Location: Tuesday 15 May 2012, Cancun, Mexico
Organized by Linköping University in association with Elsevier

 

Sponsored by

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Provisional program

Printing glucose sensors – the classic example                                  
Prof. APF Turner, Linköping University, Sweden

The Industrial Challenge To Achieve Commercially Successful Biosensor Products
Dr. Raeanne Gifford, Linköping University, Sweden

Printing machinery and equipment
Speaker to be announced

Printing inks   
Speaker from Ercon

Printed Electronics – New possibilities for disposable biosensors
Dr. Göran Gustavsson, Acreo, Sweden

High volume roll-to-roll manufacturing of hot embossed microfluidics
Markku Känsäkoski, MK Fluidics Oy

Conclusions and discussion

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Background

The introduction of screen-printing revolutionized the biosensors industry in the 1980s, catapulting it from a cottage industry worth around US$5 million per annum to a major multi-billion dollar product for the new millennium. Biosensors for clinical analysers were initially all hand fabricated, which seriously limited their applicability in many markets. The advent of machine manufacturing allowed biosensors to penetrate the home diagnostic market, where billions of biosensors are now supplied worldwide. Printing methods have become ever more sophisticated and have been supplemented by lamination, sputtering, laser ablation and microfabrication technology to meet the every more exacting commercial requirements and the ethos of continuous improvement. Meanwhile, the research community has generated multifarious variations on the theme of inexpensive, mass-producible sensing devices encompassing approaches such as ink jet, air brush, drop-on-delivery, embossing and paper wicking technologies. Proceeding along a parallel and arguably converging trajectory, printed electronics offers us the prospect of complimentary inexpensive electronics and displays. Using similar common printing equipment, such as screen printing, inkjet, flexography, gravure and offset lithography; resistors, transistors and light-emitting diodes can be created with the potential to produce fully integrated sensing devices. The most common-place example today is RFID tags, which give the possibility to give each product in a store, factory or warehouse its own unique individual identifier. Further convergence of both molecular printing and molecular electronics offers fascinating possibilities for a new generation of biosensors.

Scope

This Summer School provides a tutorial style introduction to the rapidly developing fields of Printed Biosensors and Electronics and the emerging possibility of fully integrated devices. It will serve as a prelude to the high-level research papers and reviews that will follow in the main Congress – Biosensors 2012. Topics will be covered in depth and at a fundamental level in order to furnish participants with a detailed understanding of the science, practical application and commercial prospects behind this rapidly evolving topic. Printing continues to forge new paradigms for the manufacture of diagnostics to tackle key medical and environmental issues. This course will cover the concepts, materials, equipment engineering principles, barriers and market opportunities opened up by this new integrating discipline.

Format of Course

• The one-day course will comprise a series of lectures and a lunchtime discussion session introducing different aspects of Printed Biosensors and Electronics, from the basic fundamentals to the various applications.
• The course will run from 09:00am – 5.00pm.  Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Outline

Key topics that will be covered include:

• Glucose biosensors – the defining example
• Printing methods
• Printing inks
• Printing machinery
• Paper biosensors
• Printed fluidics
• Molecular imprinting
• The industrial challenge for biosensor production
• Printed electronics
• Printed optics - polymer optics
• Organic electronics
• Conclusions and discussion

The fee to attend is in addition to the congress registration and you can save your place at the summer school by registering now. The fee is $125 and includes refreshment breaks, lunch and materials. Click here to register.