Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE)

About LOE

The Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) is a vibrant, international and collaborative research environment of more than 140 scientists, students, and staff. We design and synthesize functional organic materials and hybrid materials, model and characterize their properties and apply them in an array of areas including energy harvesting and storage, catalysis, printed electronics, photonics, bioelectronics and plant bioelectronics. Our activities span the range from fundamental research to commercialization. An important common theme for our research is materials for sustainable technologies and we are active in several large multi-institutional efforts such as the Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC), the Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE), the Digital Cellulose Center (DCC) and Treesearch. LOE is a collaborative research environment emphasizing knowledge and expertise sharing. LOE operates a large open laboratory environment featuring state-of-the-art facilities for synthesis, characterization and fabrication including cleanroom facilities and equipment, as well as access to the Printed Electronics Arena with a full suite of printing and additive manufacturing tools and techniques. At LOE, the graduate training and research activities are conducted in English.

News

Two researches in the clean room.

Major step for flat and adjustable optics

By carefully placing nanostructures on a flat surface, researchers at LiU have significantly improved the performance of so-called optical metasurfaces in conductive plastics. This is a major step for controllable flat optics.

Pipette against black background..

A pipette that can activate individual neurons

Researchers at LiU have developed a type of pipette that can deliver ions to individual neurons without affecting the sensitive extracellular milieu. The technique can provide important insights into how individual braincells are affected.

A flexible battery pulled in different directions.

A fluid battery that can take any shape

Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at LiU have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way.

Latest publications

2025

Dace Gao, Tom van der Pol, Chiara Musumeci, Deyu Tu, Simone Fabiano (2025) Organic Mixed Conductors for Neural Biomimicry and Biointerfacing ANNUAL REVIEW OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING, Vol. 16, p. 293-320 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Dongqing Lin, Yulong Duan, Pravallika Bandaru, Pengli Li, Mohammad Shaad Ansari, Alexander Yu. Polyakov, Janna Wilhelmsen, Magnus Jonsson (2025) Switchable narrow nonlocal conducting polymer plasmonics Nature Communications, Vol. 16, Article 4484 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tran van Chinh, Mohammad Morsali, Ziyauddin Khan, Reverant Crispin, Mika H. Sipponen, Isak Engquist (2025) Lignin Nanoparticles as Biobased Redox Centers for Organic Battery Electrodes ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Alexandar Mehandzhiyski, Maria-Ximena Ruiz-Caldas, Patrick Heasman, Varvara Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura, Lennart Bergstrom, Igor Zozoulenko (2025) Is it possible to completely dry cellulose? Carbohydrate Polymers, Vol. 365, Article 123803 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Chan Zhang, Runfeng Xiao, Mengxing Wu, Tongxin Wu, Xi Liu, Feng Gan, Jing Zhao, Jinpeng Mo, Shangzhi Chen, Canyan Che, Guangming Chen, Reverant Crispin, Chaoyang Kuang, Shaobo Han (2025) High-performance jointless all-organic Ohmic junction thermoelectric generators Nano Energy, Vol. 142, Article 111188 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mohsen Mohammadi, Jin Shang, Yuyang Li, Aiman Rahmanudin, Darius Jakonis, Magnus Berggren, Lars Herlogsson, Klas Tybrandt (2025) Miniaturized Soft and Stretchable Multilayer Circuits through Laser-Defined High Aspect-Ratio Printing Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Dovydas Blazevicius, Gintare Krucaite, Alla Bogoslovska, Saulius Grigalevicius, Amjad Ali, Hans Agren, Glib Baryshnikov, Oleg Dimitriev (2025) A twisted double donor in donor-acceptor-donor D2-D1-A-D1-D2 type emitters yields multicomponent charge-transfer emission RSC Advances, Vol. 15, p. 18559-18565 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maryann Morales, John A. Clark, Omar O'Mari, James B. Derr, Eli M. Espinoza, Mimi Karen Billones, Rashid Valiev, Glib Baryshnikov, Valentine I. Vullev (2025) Twisting, Hydrogen Bonding, Exciplex Formation, and Charge Transfer. What Makes a Bright Fluorophore Not So Bright? Journal of Organic Chemistry (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Olivier Bardagot, Pablo Durand, Shubhradip Guchait, Hanyan Wu, Isabelle Heinzen, Wissal Errafi, Victor Bouylout, Alessandra Pistillo, Chiyuan Yang, Gonzague Rebetez, Priscila Cavassin, Badr Jismy, Julien Rehault, Simone Fabiano, Martin Brinkmann, Nicolas Leclerc, Natalie Banerji (2025) Over Tenfold Increase in Current Amplification Due to Anisotropic Polymer Chain Alignment in Organic Electrochemical Transistors Advanced Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Shaobing Xiong, Mats Fahlman, Qinye Bao (2025) Interface energetics in organic and perovskite semiconductor solar cells JOURNAL OF SEMICONDUCTORS, Vol. 46, Article 050301 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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