Researchers led by Eric Glowacki, principal investigator of the organic nanocrystals subgroup in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have developed a tiny, simple photoactive film that converts light impulses into electrical signals. These signals in turn stimulate neurons (nerve cells). The research group has chosen to focus on a particularly pressing application, artificial retinas that may in the future restore si...

Klas Tybrandt, principal investigator at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, has developed a new technology for long-term stable neural recording. It is based on a novel elastic material composite, which is biocompatible and retains high electrical conductivity even when stretched to double its original length. The result has been achieved in collaboration with colleagues in Zürich and New York.

Printed electronic transistor circuits and displays in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed are two of many applications of research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University. New groundbreaking results on these topics have been published in Science Advances. The researchers in organic electronics have a favourite material to work with: the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS, which conducts both elect...

World-wide, drug resistance accounts for over 500 000 deaths annually, and these alarming numbers are expected to rise further. Research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Europe is highly fragmented, with few countries having specific research programmes dedicated to AMR. Per the World Health Organisation (WHO), AMR is one of the three greatest threats to human health.

The EU funded POLYACT project applied textile fabrication principles to the production of microactuators, offering a range of biomedical applications both inside and outside the body. There are a range of advances in biotechnology which take advantage of the ability to manipulate biology at the microscopic level. Yet those fields which rely on optimum dexterity and materials compliance face significant hurdles in realising their full potenti...

  Dan Zhao and Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have created a thermoelectric organic transistor. A temperature rise of a single degree is sufficient to cause a detectable current modulation in the transistor. The results have now been published in Nature Communications.

Polymer solar cells can be even cheaper and more reliable thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Linköping University and the CAS. This work is about avoiding costly and unstable fullerenes. Polymer solar cells have in recent years emerged as a low cost alternative to silicon solar cells. In order to obtain high efficiency, fullerenes are usually required in polymer solar cells to separate charge carriers. However, fullerenes are unstable...

Researchers at the Laboratory for Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden, have created a supercondenser that can be charged by the sun. It contains no expensive or hazardous materials, has patents pending, and it should be fully possible to manufacture it on an industrial scale. In the future we could have a completely new type of energy storage, charged by heat energy – for example during the day when the sun shines, or b...