Photo of Reverant Crispin

Reverant Crispin

Professor, Head of Unit

Principal Investigator at Organic Energy Materials, 
Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Presentation

Xavier Crispin obtained his PhD in 2000 with Prof. J.L. Brédas (University of Mons, Belgium) in quantum chemical modelling of the interaction of organic molecules on transition metal surfaces. He spent a postdoc training at Linköping University with Prof. W.R. Salaneck, who taught him various photoelectron spectroscopy techniques to characterize molecular order and electronic structure of semi(conducting) polymers and molecules, as well as the energetics at interfaces created between those materials and electrodes.

In 2004, Xavier joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics headed by Prof. M. Berggren and developed activities on organic electronic devices (organic diodes, transistors, memories). In 2011, he received the ERC-starting grant from the European Research Council. For his development on thermoelectric polymers, he was awarded the Tage Erlander Prize (2012) and the Göran Gustafsson prize (2016) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Since 2014, he is a Professor (Linköping University, Sweden) and leads research activities on organic energy materials.

In 2019, he became vice-director of the national program Advanced Functional Materials at Linköping University. He is cofounder and scientific advisor of 3 start-up companies: Ligna Energy AB (2017) developing organic batteries, ParsNord (2020) developing flexible thermoelectric coolers, and Cellfion AB (2021) producing ion-selective cellulose membranes for H2-electrolysers and redox flow batteries. He is also advisory board member for the following journals: “Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research” (2020) and Nano Research Energy (2021).

Xavier Crispin och Sara StrömbergPhoto credit: Thor Balkhed
Xavier Crispin shows Sara Strömberg, Grants office, instruments in Clean room, Campus Norrköping.

Publications

2024

Sanna Lander, Jiu Pang, Johan Erlandsson, Mikhail Vagin, Mohammad Javad Jafari, Leena Korhonen, Hongli Yang, Tobias Abrahamsson, Penghui Ding, Viktor Gueskine, Alexandar Mehandzhiyski, Thomas Ederth, Igor Zozoulenko, Lars Wågberg, Reverant Crispin, Magnus Berggren (2024) Controlling the rate of posolyte degradation in all-quinone aqueous organic redox flow batteries by sulfonated nanocellulose based membranes: The role of crossover and Michael addition Journal of Energy Storage, Vol. 83, Article 110338 Continue to DOI
Ayesha Sultana, Md Mehebub Alam, Xavier Crispin, Dan Zhao (2024) The enhanced ionic thermal potential by a polarized electrospun membrane Chemical Communications Continue to DOI
Chaoyang Kuang, Shangzhi Chen, Min Luo, Qilun Zhang, Xiao Sun, Shaobo Han, Qingqing Wang, Vallery Stanishev, Vanya Darakchieva, Reverant Crispin, Mats Fahlman, Dan Zhao, Qiye Wen, Magnus Jonsson (2024) Switchable Broadband Terahertz Absorbers Based on Conducting Polymer-Cellulose Aerogels Advanced Science, Vol. 11, Article 2305898 Continue to DOI

2023

Mehebub Alam, Xavier Crispin (2023) The past, present, and future of piezoelectric fluoropolymers: Towards efficient and robust wearable nanogenerators Nano Research Energy, Vol. 2, Article e9120076 Continue to DOI
Viktor Gueskine, Mikhail Vagin, Magnus Berggren, Xavier Crispin, Igor Zozoulenko (2023) Oxygen reduction reaction at conducting polymer electrodes in a wider context: Insights from modelling concerning outer and inner sphere mechanisms ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE ADVANCES, Vol. 3, Article e2100191 Continue to DOI

Research

News

A figure.

Five LiU projects on the IVA 100 list

Five research projects from Linköping University are included in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 100 list this year.

Professor Xavier Crispin and research engineers Ujwala Ail and Ziyauddin Khan, at the crimper that manufactures coin cell batteries, in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Prize-winning technology for large-scale energy storage

Safe, cheap and sustainable technology for energy storage has been developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics. It is based on two major breakthroughs: the manufacture of wood-based electrodes in rolled form, and a new water-based electrolyte.

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.

Organisation