Organic Energy Materials 

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We exploit and investigate the physics and chemistry of novel organic and composite materials to design and fabricate the next generation of energy devices.

Principal investigator: Reverant Crispin
Co-investigators: Isak Engquist, Viktor Gueskine, Zia Ullah Kahn

In Organic Energy Materials we design organic materials with a specific function for energy transport, conversion or storage. One key advantage of organic materials is that they are composed of atomic elements of high natural abundancy; which is highly relevant for mass implementation of energy technology. Energy devices can be separated into conversion and storage devices. Both types can be designed to operate as solid state or electrochemical devices.

The research unit of Organic Energy Materials is composed of about 30 researchers and divided into 3 research groups: organic energy storage (OES), organic energy harvesters (OEH) and organic electrochemical device (OED).

Our research spams from fundamental research on materials (e.g. organic electroactive polymers, forest materials, organic dyes, liquid organic hydrogen carriers) to their implementation in energy devices (e.g. organic batteries, organic redox flow batteries, organic electrolyser, organic thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics).

The use of 2D-materials and forest materials are combined in new nanocomposites for electrocatalysis, electrical conductor or thermal management. Some of our activities are also devoted to the fabrication of materials and devices with additive manufacturing methods.

Finally, we promote the Swedish spirit of entrepreneurship (Gnosjöandan) to support start up companies from birth until they take off.

Research groups

Publications from Organic Energy Materials

2025

Arman Molaei, Zia Khan, Reverant Crispin (2025) Toward Deoxygenation Electrolyze with Compensating Catechol Oxidation Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tauseef Ahmed, Rajan Jose, Md Mehebub Alam, Reverant Crispin, Tamrin Nuge, Vipin Raj, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed (2025) Stretchable surfaces and electrodes for triboelectric nanogenerators: Challenges and opportunities Nano Energy, Vol. 142, Article 111244 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Varsha Joseph Ariyamparambil, Reverant Crispin, Ziyauddin Khan (2025) Hard carbon from wood and its constituents: Toward sustainable sodium and potassium-ion battery anodes Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, Vol. 223, Article 116060 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tran van Chinh, Mohammad Morsali, Ziyauddin Khan, Reverant Crispin, Mika H. Sipponen, Isak Engquist (2025) Lignin Nanoparticles as Biobased Redox Centers for Organic Battery Electrodes ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Chan Zhang, Runfeng Xiao, Mengxing Wu, Tongxin Wu, Xi Liu, Feng Gan, Jing Zhao, Jinpeng Mo, Shangzhi Chen, Canyan Che, Guangming Chen, Reverant Crispin, Chaoyang Kuang, Shaobo Han (2025) High-performance jointless all-organic Ohmic junction thermoelectric generators Nano Energy, Vol. 142, Article 111188 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Irina V. Pushkareva, Zhixing Wu, Xianjie Liu, Maksim A. Solovyev, Sergey I. Butrim, Margarita V. Kozlova, Tatiana L. Kulova, Reverant Crispin, Emma Björk, Dmitri G. Bessarabov, Mikhail Vagin, Artem S. Pushkarev (2025) Advanced Nickel-Based Gas Diffusion Anode for Zero-Gap Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (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
Mohsen Mohammadi, Saeed Mardi, Jaywant Phopase, Filippa Wentz, Jibin Joseph Joseph Samuel, Ujwala Ail, Magnus Berggren, Reverant Crispin, Klas Tybrandt, Aiman Rahmanudin (2025) Make it flow from solid to liquid: Redox-active electrofluids for intrinsically stretchable batteries Science Advances, Vol. 11, Article eadr9010 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Pedro Candiotto de Oliveira, Ujwala Ail, Zia Khan, Reverant Crispin, Dan Zhao (2025) Printable Carbon-Based Thermogalvanic Cells Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research, Article 2400428 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Canyan Che, Viktor Gueskine, Martin Sjodin, Alexander Pozhitkov, Liang Yao, Magnus Berggren, Yuguang Ma, Reverant Crispin, Mikhail Vagin (2025) Probing a conducting polymer by proton-coupled electron transfer of biosimilar redox molecules New Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 49, p. 4178-4190 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Researchers in Organic Energy Materials

News about Organic Energy Materials

 Illustration generated with AI technology.

2d-paper

"2D-Paper" proposes to combine 2D materials and cellulose to create a new thermally conductive paper substrate for flexible electronics.

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.

Battery om fingertip.

Eco-friendly and affordable battery for low-income countries

A battery made from zinc and lignin that can be used over 8000 times. This has been developed by researchers at LiU with a vision to provide a cheap and sustainable battery solution for countries where access to electricity is limited.

Education, collaboration, innovation

Education

The Organic Energy Material group is involved in the education of phd students and contributes to several high-level courses (scientific instrumentation, organic electronics, electrochemistry). 

Collaboration

Our researchers can interact with other scientists through our the 3 centers involving LOE: The Advanced Functional Center, the Wood Wallenberg Science Center; and the Digital Cellulose Center and the EU network HORATES.

Innovation

We also promote innovation by supporting start-up companies (Ligna Energy AB,  PARSNORD and CELLIFON) and establishing long term collaborations with key industrial partners (RedoxmeIMRA-EuropeBillerud).

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