Materials Science, including functional materials

International Interdisciplinary Materials Science Laboratory for Advanced Functional Materials

The vision is that application-inspired basic research focused on the design of new materials at the atomic/molecular scale will solve societal problems within energy, environment, health and employment. Research in Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) creates multi-functional materials for life sciences technology and the engineering, pulp & paper, energy and IT industries.

Materials science is a high priority at Linköping University. We offer one of Sweden's most unique, excellent research environments with funding derived from all the major announcements via: Linnaeus grants from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Linnaeus, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA Vinnex) and recently ERC Advanced Grants (Hultman).

We intend to become a truly international, interdisciplinary research centre for Advanced Functional Materials (AFM). This is achieved by concerted efforts in carefully selected areas that focus on creating social benefit:

• Newly created high-performance soft, hard and smart hybrid material
• Integrated manufacturing, analytical and computational modelling
• Securing IPR and R & D with companies
• Training researchers and industrialists

The research is driven by active industrial collaboration. In terms of academic benchmarks, AFM researchers are extremely productive producing large numbers of innovations, patents and spin-offs. AFM creates unmatched multi-functional materials for the engineering, pulp & paper, energy, and IT industries and life sciences technology. Initially, AFM will operate Centres of Excellence within the thin-film technology, development of wide band gap semiconductor, self-assembly of organic electronic materials and printing of large-area organic electronics.

Our vision is that application-inspired basic research focused on the design of new materials at the atomic/molecular scale that will solve societal problems within energy, environment, health and employment. We integrate research at multiple levels, discover new materials, enable the efficient production of components and develop materials for efficient energy conversion and white LED lighting.

Director of the AFM is Lars Hultman and deputy director Magnus Berggren. 

A total of SEK 110 million between 2010-2014

Contact: Lars Hultman, 013-28 12 84, lars.hultman@liu.se
Principal applicant: Linköping University 100%