Printing sensors for biological samples
Acreo develops technologies for printed electronics. Using organic printers, Acreo can print a transistor where biological samples can be placed.
Normally, silicon and metals are used in all kinds of electronics making construction rather costly. Swedish Acreo develops technologies for printing electronics based on organic polymers commonly used because of their mechanical properties and low cost processability.
– We can make this process very cheap using printed organic material, says Petronella Norberg, project manager at Acreo.
The applications for their technology are diverse, ranging from paper-like displays to printed transistors. Acreo is involved in the development of a sensor for biological samples based on a printed electrolyte-gated organic transistor. Everything will, of course, be processed in a printing process. The goal is to process everything at low cost by printing or other reel-to-reel processes. Together with researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Acreo has developed an ion pump.
The company has existed for 11 years and has one product on the market, an electronical display on paper. The majority of the research is done in cooperation with the University of Linköping. The main activities within the area of organic electronics at Acreo and Linköping University are developments of components and systems based on electrochemical functionalities.
Acreo is attending the fair seeking new customers and research partners.