Home

In focus: Materials

Many hours of research lie behind many of the materials we use every day, such as spectacles, solar cells and dental implants. Researchers in materials science investigate how various materials are built up and how they work – in order to be able to develop new ingenious solutions.

They hope to create new materials that can help society and be used in such applications as surgical implants, solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

Articles on materials

Materialforskning

Arwen – mainstay of successful materials research

Europe’s sharpest electron microscope was put into use at LiU in 2011, and now materials researchers are lining up to use Arwen.
Energipappret, Power paper

Storing electricity in paper

Researchers at LiU’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed power paper – a new material with an outstanding ability to store energy. The material consists of nanocellulose and a conductive polymer.
Johan Moverare, professor i konstruktionsmetarial

Additively manufactured material under scrutiny

Johan Moverare and his research group are now going inside additively manufactured materials. Microstructure, strength, durability, and more will be studied in detail for an industrial revolution dreaming of the material coming up to standard.

Atomic artistry yields new materials

Video

Jens Birch, professor, and Johanna Rosén, assistant professor, design new magnetic materials, for instance for use in computers. Plus other materials aimed at increasing the information volume in optical fibre.

Solar cells on a roll

Video

Olle Inganäs, professor of organic electronics, develops solar cells from organic materials that are printed on thin plastic foil. It is about renewable energy in soft, eco-friendly and inexpensive materials. And it could help meet electricity requirements in Sweden and for millions of people in other parts of the world.

Materials science at LiU

Advanced Functional Materials - AFM

Advanced Functional Materials, AFM, is an interdisciplinary research environment conducting studies in advanced functional materials. The initiative is based on a government investment with strategic research areas as its foundation.

More research in the spotlight

Research in the spotlight

Much of the research at Linköping University transcends traditional borders. Between subjects, faculties and countries. We present articles on various topics for non-specialist readers, spotlighting some of this research.