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Imagine a future where there is effective treatment for diseases of the nervous system and the brain. Magnus Berggren develop a new type of medicines for treating Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and cancer.

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability – WISE.

Do ordered polymer chains increase the conductivity of plastic? Newly developed are more conductive, but for completely different reasons – according to researchers from LiU and Stanford University, in an article in the highly ranked journal PNAS.

Five researchers at LiU have each been awarded SEK 1 million per year for four years in research grants from a joint initiative by the Swedish Energy Agency and the Swedish Research Council in energy-oriented basic research.

Researchers at LiU have developed a small device that both detects the initial signal of an epileptic attack and doses a substance that effectively stops it. All this takes place where the signal arises.

The government’s investment in strategic areas of research has been evaluated by an international panel of experts. LiU’s three initiatives all get the thumbs up, and it has been proposed that materials research receive increased funding.

With a microfabricated ion pump ions can be sent to nerve or muscle cells at the speed of the nervous system and with a precision of a single cell. “Now we can start to develop components that speak the body’s own language,” says Daniel Simon, LOE.

Printed electronic transistor circuits and displays, in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed, are two of many applications of ground-breaking research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, published in Science Advances.

A supercapacitor has been constructed in a plant for the first time. The plant, a rose, can be charged and discharged hundreds of times. This breakthrough is the result of research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

A drug delivery ion pump in organic electronics also works in plants. Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at LiU and the Umeå Plant Science Centre have used such an ion pump to control the root growth of a small flowering plant.