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Renee Kroon

Associate Professor, Head of Unit, Docent

Presentation

Renee has an educational background in polymer science, receiving his MSc on this topic in 2008 from the University of Groningen. In that same year, he joined the group of Prof. Mats Andersson at Chalmers University of Technology as a Ph.D. student, working on the synthesis of conjugated polymers for solar cells. After graduating in 2013 he moved to the University of South Australia as a postdoc, where he continued to work on the same topic for 1.5 years.

In 2015, he joined the group of Prof. Christian Muller as a postdoc, switching his research focus to the field of organic thermoelectrics. One of the various topics he has investigated within this field has been the synthesis of polar polythiophenes and their functionalized variations.

After a short hiatus from academia during which he worked at RISE AB in Borås, he joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics in July 2020 as an associate professor in organic chemistry. The research in the Organic Chemistry group currently revolves around the design and synthesis of functionalized conjugated polymers for organic electronic applications.

Publications

2025

Eva Rock, Demetra Tsokkou, Basil Hunger, Maximilian M. Horn, Sepideh Zokaei, Renee Kroon, Jesika Asatryan, Jaime Martin, Christian Mueller, Martijn Kemerink, Natalie Banerji (2025) Distance-resilient conductivity in p-doped polythiophenes Materials Horizons (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lovisa Byström, Mikhail Vagin, Nataliia Smyk, Penghui Ding, Hamid Ghorbani Shiraz, Olena Sevastyanova, Martin Lawoko, Gunnar Henriksson, Maciej Gryszel, Renee Kroon, Mohammad Javad Jafari, Thomas Ederth, Magnus Berggren, Pawel Wojcik, Viktor Gueskine, Reverant Crispin (2025) Catalyst-Free Lignosulfonate Electro-Oxidation for Oxygen Management via Paired Electrolysis ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Vol. 13, p. 14804-14814 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jiali Guo, Kai Xu, Jesika Asatryan, Matias Jesus Alonso-Navarro, Osnat Zapata-Arteaga, Mariavittoria Craighero, Aleksandr Perevedentsev, Renee Kroon, Maria Mar Ramos, Jose L. Segura, Jaime Martin, Christian Mueller, Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Mariano Campoy-Quiles (2025) Microstructural Evolution Dominates the Changes in the Thermal Conductivity of Conjugated Polymers Upon Doping Advanced Functional Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joost Kimpel, Youngseok Kim, Hannes Schomaker, Diego R. Hinojosa, Jesika Asatryan, Jaime Martin, Renee Kroon, Michael Sommer, Christian Muller (2025) Open-flask, ambient temperature direct arylation synthesis of mixed ionic-electronic conductors Science Advances, Vol. 11, Article eadv8168 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mohammad Shaad Ansari, Stefano Rossi, Giancarlo Cincotti, Renee Kroon, Magnus Jonsson (2025) Vapor phase polymerization of thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-tosylate and its application for dynamic structural coloration Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 13, p. 7643-7653 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI