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.

An organic electronic ion pump (OEIP). The device uses electrophoretic transport through thin polymer films to deliver ions, neurotransmitters, plant hormones, and other small charged molecules into living tissue.

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.

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.

Recent publications

2025

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
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
David Neusser, Xiuming Sun, Sushri Soumya Jena, Wen Liang Tan, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R. McNeill, Sarbani Ghosh, Igor Zozoulenko, Sabine Ludwigs (2025) Electrochemical Doping for Absorption and Conductivity Tuning of P(NDI2OD-T2) Films Advanced Electronic Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sheng Jiang, Shaobing Xiong, Zhongcheng Yuan, Yafang Li, Xiaomeng You, Hongbo Wu, Menghui Jia, Zhennan Lin, Zaifei Ma, Yuning Wu, Yefeng Yao, Xianjie Liu, Junhao Chu, Zhenrong Sun, Mats Fahlman, Henry J. Snaith, Qinye Bao (2025) Interfacial Energetics Reversal Strategy for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Advanced Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marek K. Weclawski, Marie Jakesova, Martyna Charyton, Nicola Demitri, Beata Koszarna, Kerstin Oppelt, Serdar Sariciftci, Daniel T. Gryko, Eric Glowacki (2025) Correction: Biscoumarin-containing acenes as stable organic semiconductors for photocatalytic oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide (vol 5, pg 20780, 2017) Journal of Materials Chemistry A (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