Research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics

About LOE

Talented researchers from all over the world join LOE to do Impactful Research by contributing to groundbreaking discoveries that address critical societal issues, work in a Collaborative Environment and be part of a dynamic team of researchers and specialists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of science and use State-of-the-Art Facilities - leveraging advanced laboratories and cutting-edge technologies to support their research.

Research at LOE spans a wide a variety of areas, most based to some degree on organic electronic materials, such as electronically conducting polymers and molecules, and ionically conducting polyelectrolytes. LOE has multiple independent research groups, each with their own areas of focus. However, our groups collaborate continuously to create internal cross-disciplinary projects to benefit from our complementary expertise and speed up innovation. Results are regularly published in leading high-impact journals (see publications below and at the individual research group pages). Major funding for LOE's research is provided by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Vinnova, the AFM Government Strategic Research Area, and the European Commission.


LOE research groups

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Organic Energy Materials

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

Organic Bioelectronics

We investigate the transduction between electronic signals and ionic/molecular signals in electroactive surfaces, iontronic chemical delivery and circuitry, biosensors, mimicking neural function, next-generation medical therapy, and many other areas.

Organic energy storage

Many electronic materials, in particular organic ones, can be turned into inks or pastes. This opens up exciting possibilities to fabricate electronic components and circuits by common printing methods.

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Theory and modelling for organic electronics

The theoretical simulation and modelling of the basic properties of organic materials and devices represents the main focus of the research activity of our group.

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Surface Physics and Chemistry

The overall goal of our unit is to do basic science on topics that can have a positive impact on society. We do general surface physics and chemistry research related to e.g. energy materials, devices and catalytic processes.

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Organic photonics and nano-optics

We develop and study novel concepts based on the combination of unique features provided by conducting polymers and the exceptional light-matter interaction of plasmonic metal nanostructures.

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Soft Electronics

The Soft Electronics group develops composite materials, design concepts and devices, moving electronics into the realm of soft and deforming systems.

Organic nano electronics

Organic nanoelectronics

The research of the Organic Nanoelectronics group focuses on the optoelectronic and transport properties of nano-scaled organic semiconductors.

Electronic Plants

We develop bioelectronic devices for plant science focusing on more sustainable food production and on plants resistance to environmental stress. We also develop biohybrid technologies and living materials as new sustainable technological concepts.

Conjugated polymer Chemistry

We develop green chemistry & chemical functionalization of conjugated polymers and explore photo- and electroactive stimuli-responsive hybrid materials.

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Catalysis and Self-Assembly

We combine nanomaterials self-assembly and catalysis to enable more sustainable production of food, chemicals, and materials.

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Green Polymer Chemistry (GPC)

We develop new concepts in Polymer Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biopolymer Chemistry to solve Sustainable and Functional Materials Synthesis challenges.

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Functional Pi-Materials

Building functional nanostructures for clean energy technology through organic chemistry.

Recent publications

2026

Jinpeng Yang, Tingyu Jiao, Wei Li, Bo Xu, Mats Fahlman, Satoshi Kera, Xianjie Liu (2026) Evolution ofthe Electronic Structure of Hybrid Organic-InorganicHalide Perovskite Single Crystals upon Alkali Metal Doping The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c01932
Gábor Méhes, Arghyamalya Roy, Shenghan Gu, Magnus Berggren, Eleni Stavrinidou, Daniel Simon (2026) Fumarate dramatically enhances biocurrent output in Shewanella-based bioelectrochemical system Bioelectrochemistry, Vol. 172, Article 109330 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2026.109330
Sebastian Hecko, Marle Vleugels, Christian Bayer, Donghak Byun, Moa Hörberg, Nikolaus Poremba, Rassen Boukraa, Patrick Keppel, Andreas Loffler, Walter Kuba, Helena Saarela Unemo, Iwona Bernacka Wojcik, Theresia Arbring Sjöström, Magnus Berggren, Daniel Simon, Rainer Schindl, Linda Waldherr, Hannes Mikula, Johannes Bintinger (2026) Iontronic click-to-release enables electrically controlled delivery of drugs and biomolecules beyond charge and size limitations Nature Communications, Vol. 17, Article 4629 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70985-0
Eleni Stavrinidou (2026) Multielectrode arrays to visualize electrical signals in plants NATURE ELECTRONICS (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41928-026-01610-7
Di Zhu, Judith Pons I Tarres, Joost Kimpel, Meghna Jha, Mariavittoria Craighero, Jesika Asatryan, Alberto Peinador Veiga, Zesheng Liu, Tania Cecilia Hidalgo, Megan M. Westwood, Mats Fahlman, Jaime Martin, Alexander Giovannitti, Christian Muller (2026) Ambient direct arylation synthesis of thienothiophene based copolymers with mixed alkoxy and oligoether side chains Chemical Science (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d6sc01881e
Nakul Jain, Xiane Li, Mats Fahlman, Olle Inganäs, Koen Vandewal, Feng Gao (2026) Energetic Offset in Organic Solar Cells- Importance, Confusion and Outlook Advanced Materials, Article e17060 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202517060
Dace Gao, Junpeng Ji, Simone De Pra, Miao Xiong, Wenlong Jin, Ugo Bruno, Hanyan Wu, Aleksandr Khudiakov, Andreas W. Erhardt, Chiyuan Yang, Peter J. Schwartz, Luca Sala, Iain McCulloch, Adrica Kyndiah, Mario Caironi, Magnus Berggren, Deyu Tu, Simone Fabiano (2026) An organic artificial cardiomyocyte Nature Communications, Vol. 17, Article 4181 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72584-5