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Simone Fabiano

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Unit

Principal Investigator at Organic Nanoelectronics, 
Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Presentation

Simone Fabiano received his MSc degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy) in 2008, working on nanostructured materials for organic photovoltaic cells.

In 2012, he earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Palermo (Italy) with a work aimed at controlling the molecular packing of organic semiconductors for efficient charge transport in thin film transistors and solar cells. From 2010, he also worked as a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Maria Antonietta Loi at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

In 2012, he carried out postdoctoral research at Linköping University (Sweden) with Prof. Magnus Berggren, and in 2016 he joined the group of Prof. Antonio Facchetti and Prof. Tobin J. Marks at Northwestern University (USA), where he worked as a Marie Curie Fellow and a VINNEMER Fellow until December 2017.

Simone Fabiano is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology at Linköping University, where he guides the research activities of the Organic Nanoelectronics group. Since October 2020, he is also a Docent in Applied Physics.

His research interests include the development of organic conductors and mixed ion-electron conductors for printed electronics and neuromorphic computing.

Simone Fabiano while working at Clean Room, Campus Norrköping.
Photo credit: Thor Balkhed

Publications

2025

Jun-Da Huang, Qifan Li, Qingqing Wang, Tiefeng Liu, Sang Young Jeong, Sri Harish Kumar Paleti, Tom van der Pol, Kai Xu, Hanyan Wu, Natalie Pinchin, Marc-Antoine Stoeckel, Wenlong Jin, Aleksandr Perevedentsev, Xianjie Liu, Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Han Young Woo, Christian Muller, Mats Fahlman, Chiyuan Yang, Simone Fabiano (2025) Preventing Benzoquinone-Based Catalyst Aggregation Enables the One-Step Synthesis of Highly Conductive Poly(benzodifurandione) without Post-Reaction Purification Advanced Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sri Harish Kumar Paleti, Shuichi Haraguchi, Zhiqiang Cao, Mariavittoria Craighero, Joost Kimpel, Zijin Zeng, Przemyslaw Sowinski, Di Zhu, Judith Tarres, Youngseok Kim, Qifan Li, Jun-Da Huang, Alexei Kalaboukhov, Besira Mihiretie, Simone Fabiano, Xiaodan Gu, Christian Muller (2025) Benchmarking the Elastic Modulus of Conjugated Polymers with Nanoindentation Macromolecules (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Yao Yao, Robert M. Pankow, Wei Huang, Cui Wu, Lin Gao, Yongjoon Cho, Jianhua Chen, Dayong Zhang, Sakshi Sharma, Xiaoxue Liu, Yuyang Wang, Bo Peng, Sein Chung, Kilwon Cho, Simone Fabiano, Zunzhong Ye, Jianfeng Ping, Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti (2025) An organic electrochemical neuron for a neuromorphic perception system Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 122, Article e2414879122 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Neha Sepat, Mikhail Vagin, Stefano Carli, Edoardo Marchini, Stefano Caramori, Qilun Zhang, Slawomir Braun, Zhixing Wu, Penghui Ding, Kosala Wijeratne, Ioannis Petsagkourakis, Ujwala Ail, Eleni Pavlopoulou, Tero-Petri Ruoko, Simone Fabiano, Klas Tybrandt, Mats Fahlman, Reverant Crispin, Magnus Berggren, Viktor Gueskine, Isak Engquist (2024) Decoupling Conductivity, Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rate, and Diffusion in Organic Molecular Electrocatalysis: Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Claudia Latte Bovio, Paola Campione, Hanyan Wu, Qifan Li, Ana de la Fuente Duran, Alberto Salleo, Simone Fabiano, Grazia Maria Lucia Messina, Francesca Santoro (2024) Evaluation of the Biocompatibility of Poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline)(BBL) Polymer Films with Living Cells Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

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Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability – WISE.

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Next-generation sustainable electronics are doped with air

Researchers at LiU have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The study is a significant step towards future sustainable organic semiconductors.

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New sustainable method for creating organic semiconductors

Researchers at LiU have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in organic electronics. The findings pave the way for future sustainable technology.

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