Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE)

About LOE

The Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) is a vibrant, international and collaborative research environment of more than 140 scientists, students, and staff. We design and synthesize functional organic materials and hybrid materials, model and characterize their properties and apply them in an array of areas including energy harvesting and storage, catalysis, printed electronics, photonics, bioelectronics and plant bioelectronics. Our activities span the range from fundamental research to commercialization. An important common theme for our research is materials for sustainable technologies and we are active in several large multi-institutional efforts such as the Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC), the Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE), the Digital Cellulose Center (DCC) and Treesearch. LOE is a collaborative research environment emphasizing knowledge and expertise sharing. LOE operates a large open laboratory environment featuring state-of-the-art facilities for synthesis, characterization and fabrication including cleanroom facilities and equipment, as well as access to the Printed Electronics Arena with a full suite of printing and additive manufacturing tools and techniques. At LOE, the graduate training and research activities are conducted in English.

News

A flexible battery pulled in different directions.

A fluid battery that can take any shape

Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at LiU have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way.

Person in protective gear working with microscope.

Individual cells can be connected to plastic electrodes

Researchers at LiU have succeeded in creating a close connection between individual cells and organic electronics. The study lays the foundation for future treatment of neurological and other diseases with very high precision.

Flexible module generates electricity from heat, or cooling and heating from electricity

Imagine a flexible module capable of converting waste heat into electricity, whether the surface it's attached to is flat or curved. This module can also generate heating or cooling from electricity.

Latest publications

2025

Pawel Szroeder, Agnieszka Banaszak-Piechowska, Ihor Sahalianov (2025) Tailoring Electrocatalytic Properties of sp2-Bonded Carbon Nanoforms Through Doping Molecules, Vol. 30, Article 1265 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Fernanda Cortes Ruiz, Judith Martin, Lukas Marcos Celada, Peter Olsen, Lars Wagberg (2025) Strategic functionalization of wood fibers for the circular design of fiber-reinforced hydrogel composites Cell Reports Physical Science, Vol. 6, Article 102455 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Oleg Dimitriev, Huotian Zhang, Anna Dávid, Olof Eskilsson, Daniel Aili, Lukas Marcos Celada, Peter Olsen, Feng Gao, Mats Fahlman (2025) Stress-assisted, clustering-triggered visual emission of cellulose-based materials Cellulose (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
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
Giuseppina Tommasini, Mariarosaria De Simone, Martina Blasio, Claudia Zenna, Angela Tino, Eleni Stavrinidou, Silvia Santillo, Claudia Tortiglione (2025) New Perspectives on Semiconducting Conjugated Oligomers for Neuromodulation in Hydra vulgaris Advanced Materials Interfaces (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Vincent Nieboer, Karin Odelius, Peter Olsen (2025) Improving Circularity via Chemical Recycling to all Rings Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Man Zhang, Xiaoyan Xu, Zhongyu Li, Glib Baryshnikov, Hans Agren, Liangliang Zhu (2025) Dual-Emission Carbon Dots Prepared from Quinoline Quaternary Ammonium Salts with Multiple Modulations The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (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
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 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Theresia Arbring Sjöström, Anton I. Ivanov, Nariman Kiani, Iwona Bernacka Wojcik, Jennifer Samuelsson, Helena Saarela Unemo, Dionysios Xydias, Lida-Evmorfia Vagiaki, Sotiris Psilodimitrakopoulos, Ioannis Konidakis, Kyriaki Sidiropoulou, Emmanuel Stratakis, Magnus Berggren, Christophe Bernard, Daniel Simon (2025) Miniaturized Iontronic Micropipettes for Precise and Dynamic Ionic Modulation of Neuronal and Astrocytic Activity Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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