Eleni Stavrinidou

Eleni Stavrinidou awarded ERC Starting Grant

Incorporating electronic and responsive materials in plant cells in order to produce composites that maintain the living properties of cells and, in the long term, create sustainable systems using nature’s own methods is the focus of her project.

Two women, Dr Eleni Stavrinidou and PhD student Daniela Parker, holding the biohybrid plant.

Storing energy in plants with electronic roots

By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, have shown that the roots of the plant become electrically conducting and can store energy.

Children who became researchers – their stories in a new book

The children’s book “Forskardrömmar” (“Dreams of Research”) opens the door to the university and tells the stories of children who became professional researchers. Two researchers from LiU describe their childhood and how they ended up as researchers

Implantable organic electrochemical transistor sensor implanted in a tree.

Biosensors monitor plant well-being in real time

Researchers at LiU have developed biosensors that make it possible to monitor sugar levels in real time deep in the plant tissues. The information from the sensors may help agriculture to adapt production as the world faces climate change.

Mikhail Vagin and Penghui Ding working in the laboratory.

Fossil freedom comes from LiU labs

The transition to fossil freedom can’t happen overnight, but it can go much faster than it is. The technology is available, and in many cases is commercially available or nearly so. The labs at Linköping University hold hope for the future.

Xenofon Strakosas, Gábor Méhes and Arghyamalya Roy.

Using tiny electrodes to measure electrical activity in bacteria

Scientists at LiU’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed an organic transistor that they can use to measure and study in fine detail a phenomenon known as extracellular electron transfer in which bacteria release electrons.

A red rose is laying down on a work bench. In the blurry background you can se a person wearing a lab coat and blue rubber gloves.

Five future research leaders at LiU

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has selected 20 young researchers as Future Research Leaders. Five are active at LiU. Each receives SEK 12 million in a five-year period and the opportunity to participate in a leadership programme.

An electronic signal expands the material by a factor of 100

Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have discovered a material that can both increase and reduce its volume when exposed to a weak electrical pulse. In a filter, the researchers can control the size of particles that pass through.

Iwona Bernacka-Wojcik, Eleni Stavrinidou and Miriam Huerta.

Helping tobacco plants save water

Eleni Stavrinidou and her research group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have used bioelectronics to influence transpiration in a tobacco plant, without harming the plant in any way.

Award to Eleni Stavrinidou for work with electronic plants

Eleni Stavrinidou, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, is to receive the 2019 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Prize for her research into electronic plants. It will be presented by the Swedish minister for higher education and research.

Research into electronic plants receives EUR 3.3 million

Electronic plants have aroused intense interest all over the world. Eleni Stavrinidou, principal investigator in this field at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, has been awarded EUR 3.3 million for the Horizon 2020 project HyPhOE.

Storing energy in roses

Eleni Stavrinidou leads a research group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics working with electronic plants. The research has led to a completely new multidisciplinary field of research with a huge potential benefit to society.

A rose to store energy

A supercapacitor has been constructed in a plant for the first time. The plant, a rose, can be charged and discharged hundreds of times. This breakthrough is the result of research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Eleni Stavrinidou, post doc, i labbet vid LOE

LiU researchers create electronic plants

Using semi-conductive polymers, both analog and digital electronic circuits can be created inside living flowers, bushes and trees, as researchers at Laboratory for Organic Electronics have shown. The results are being published in Science Advances.

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Eleni Stavrinidou awarded ERC Starting Grant

Storing energy in plants with electronic roots

Children who became researchers – their stories in a new book