will develop future generations of wireless autonomous transducer solutions and systems-in-foil. [...] Philips, a leading player in the field of polymer electronics and microsystems, has committed to become the first industrial partner.

The centre, to be located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven [...]]]> The Holst centre, an independent research center set up by IMEC and TNO,

will develop future generations of wireless autonomous transducer solutions and systems-in-foil. [...] Philips, a leading player in the field of polymer electronics and microsystems, has committed to become the first industrial partner.

The centre, to be located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (NL),

will start with two strategic program initiatives. IMEC will lead the wireless autonomous transducer solutions initiative. The system-in-foil research and development initiative will be managed by TNO. The synergy between both initiatives will be fully utilized by the creation of joint strategic R&D activities. [...]
Within the Holst Centre, IMEC will expand its current research for wireless autonomous microsystems with focus on ultra-low-power radio; ultra-low-power signal processing; micro-power generation, storage and management; sensor and actuator technology. [...]
TNO [...] has built expertise around the industrialization of microsystems and polymer electronics, which it will contribute to the Holst Centre. In the Holst Centre, capabilities in the fields of printing of polymers, large-area deposition and structuring of thin layers and design of device architectures will be further developed. The Centre will use these capabilities to create and demonstrate ‘sensing and acting surfaces’, large-area, thin-layered products such as organic lighting and signage, sensor tags and organic electronics.

The patented QTL bioconjugate enables quantitative detection of a diverse range [...]]]>

QTL Biosystems announced that it is has been awarded a utility patent US 6,743,640 for a fluorescent polymer-QTL [Quencher-Tether-Ligand] approach to sensing target biological agents. [...] The platform utilizes changes in polymer fluorescence (polymer “superquenching”) in the presence or absence of a target biological agent.

The patented QTL bioconjugate enables quantitative detection of a diverse range of targets such as enzymes, small molecule ligands, proteins including antibodies and antibody fragments, and DNA. The property altering component of the QTL bioconjugate covers a range of materials ranging from fluorescent dyes to metal complexes and covers electron donors and acceptors as well as “energy transferring moieties.”

[Update:] this pdf file provides some details on their technology.