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

Two researches in the clean room.

Major step for flat and adjustable optics

By carefully placing nanostructures on a flat surface, researchers at LiU have significantly improved the performance of so-called optical metasurfaces in conductive plastics. This is a major step for controllable flat optics.

Pipette against black background..

A pipette that can activate individual neurons

Researchers at LiU have developed a type of pipette that can deliver ions to individual neurons without affecting the sensitive extracellular milieu. The technique can provide important insights into how individual braincells are affected.

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.

Latest publications

2025

Marina Galliani, Esma Ismailova, Pooya Azizian, Anatolii Makhinia, Joan M. Cabot (2025) Vertical textile microfluidics: advancing on-garment sweat sampling for real-time biosensing NPJ FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS, Vol. 9, Article 38 (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
Roman Ganczarczyk, Magdalena Rudowska, Maciej Gryszel, Adam Pron, Renata Rybakiewicz-Sekita, Eric D. Glowacki (2025) In Situ Electropolymerized Ambipolar Copolymers for Vertical OECTs Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Xuping Li, Liwen Huang, Glib Baryshnikov, Amjad Ali, Peiling Dai, Zhongxue Yang, Yuyu Sun, Chunling Dai, Zhixiu Guo, Qiang Zhao, Fan Zhang, Liangliang Zhu (2025) Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence-Guided Photodynamic Therapy Through Skeleton-Homologous Nanoparticles: a Rational Material Design for High-Efficient and High-Contrast Theranostics Advanced Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Viktor Gueskine, Penghui Ding, Reverant Crispin, Mikhail Vagin (2025) Overcoming dichotomy between surface and bulk of electrode: Conducting polymers Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, Vol. 51, Article 101691 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Najmeh Zahabi (2025) Simulation and Modelling of Organic Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
Jinfeng Li, Jinpeng Yang, Xianjie Liu (2025) Overcome Limited Efficiency in All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells Upon Light Management at Top Perovskite- Transparent Electrode Interfaces Advanced Electronic Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Mingna Liao (2025) Opto-Thermal Management for Ionic Thermoelectric Systems
Johan Lundgren, Torleif Martin, Hamza Khalid, Marzieh Zabihipour, Deyu Tu, Isak Engquist, Daniel Sjoberg, Mats Gustafsson (2025) Real-Time Near-Field mmWave Measurements Using Screen-Printed Metasurfaces and IR Camera IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 73, p. 2232-2244 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Qifan Li (2025) N-type Conducting Polymer Inks for Organic Thermoelectrics

Activities

Work at LOE