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2008 Sensors award from the Royal Society of Chemistry comes to Queen’s
A member of the Innovative Molecular Materials (IMM) Group, A.P. de Silva receives the 2008 Sensors award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award is sponsored by GE Healthcare. It is given in recognition of the work at Queen’s which established one of the three major design principles of fluorescent molecular sensors. This design also led to a collaboration with Roche Diagnostics which produced the chemistry module of the OPTI point-of-care blood analyzer. The chemistry module has sales of £25M upto now. The award also recognizes the invention of molecular logic as an experimental research field. This is a vibrant field which concerns molecules which perform computations of various kinds. Some of these can already be applied to tackle problems which are inaccessible to current semiconductor computing devices.
