9-10 May, Linköping

News

• 2012-03-26 We have published a new report in Science, on how to use waste materials from paper pulp processing to build polymer electrode for storing charge. The  renewable biopolymer is already synthesised in green plants, and after processing and subsequent combination with the electronic polymer polypyrrole, the storage of charge is feasible and reversible. See Science March 23
   
• 2012-02-15 We welcome Feng Gao, who joined the group as a postdoc in February, to work on white light emitting devices incorporating phosphorescent proteins. He obtained his PhD at Cambridge University with Neil Greenham in 2011
   
• 2012-01-23 Vetenskapsrådet finances a Swedish Research Link program
  " Organiska solceller för Afrika- en allians mellan Linköping och Addis Abeba" 2012-2014, ca 575 kkr
   
• 2012-01-23 Funding from Energimyndigheten for the VR application “Fotoström och nanostruktur i polymera solceller " 2012-2015, 2 716 kkr
   
• 2011-10-13 New Grant:
  We have received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse, with ca 36 Mkr over 5 years, together with Lars Wågberg and Tom Lindström at KTH, Magnus Berggren at ITN, LiU and more, for the project Power Papers. Here we aim to integrate paper technology and organic electronics, on the levels of polymers, nanofibres and substrates from the paper and pulp industry, to enable organic electronics and electrochemistry 

• 2011-10-13 We welcome Doddahalli. H. Nagaraju, National University of Singapore, Singapore, a new postdoc, to further develop biopolymer composite electrodes for energy storage

• 2011-09-01 We welcome postdoc Ahmad Shahzada, who will work on electrochemical studies of multiple redox materials based on conjugated polyelectrolytes. His previous appointment was with the Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz
   
• 2011-02-01 We welcome Jonas Bergqvist, new graduate student who will develop 
  optical tools for characterisation of  film formation and nanostructure in organic photovoltaic materials and devices
   
• 2011-01-10 Transistors on silk
  
  In Advanced Materials (C Müller et al, Adv. Mater., 2011, DOI: 10.1002/ adma.201003601) we now publish studies of electrochemical transistors built on silk fibres.
  see comments on
  http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/
  2011/January/05011102.asp
   
• 2010-08-16 Our progress paper on polymer photovoltaics was among the most
  downloaded papers from Advanced Materials in May 2010.
  Olle Inganäs, Fengling Zhang, Kristofer Tvingstedt, Lars Mattias
  Andersson, Stefan Hellström, Mats R. Andersson Progress Report
  “Advanced Energy Materials”: Polymer Photovoltaics with Alternating
  Copolymer/Fullerene Blends and Novel Device Architectures
  Adv. Mater. 2010, vol. 22, no. 20
   
• 2010-06-10 The Wallenberg foundation has appointed professor Olle Inganäs a Wallenberg Scholar, with a personal grant for research of 15 Mkr for a time of five years. (see LiU News)
   
• 2010-05-17 Jens Wigenius, Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, will defend his doctoral thesis: "Conjugated polyelectrolytes in interaction with biomolecules for supramoleculare assembly and sensing". Friday 21 May at 14.00 in Planck, Physics building. Opponent: Assoc prof Duncan Sutherland, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. Most Welcome ! 
• 2010-05-17 We now present a new route to generate white light in organic light emitting diodes. Using phosphorescent emitters confined into protein nanowires, we can balance the colour of emission from a blue polymer in electrofluorescence with emission from yellow and red electrophosphorescent emitters within protein nanowires. See the paper in Nano Letters White Light with Phosphorescent Protein Fibrils in OLEDs Aurora Rizzo, Niclas Solin, Lars J. Lindgren, Mats R. Andersson and Olle Inganäs, publication Date (Web): May 10, 2010, DOI: 10.1021/nl1012008 
• 2010-05-17 Our progress report on polymer photovoltaics "Polymer photovoltaics with alternating copolymer/fullerene blends and novel device architectures" by Olle Inganäs, Olle Inganäs  *, Fengling Zhang, Kristofer Tvingstedt, L.Mattias Andersson, Stefan Hellström and Mats R. Andersson, has now been published online in Advanced Materials
   
• 2010-03-01 Our new colleague Fredrik Bäcklund started as a PhD student March 1, and will work on synthesis and applications of functionalized nanostructures formed by self-assembly of biomolecules
   
• 2010-01-15 Zaifei Ma, from ICCAS, Beijing, started a PhD program on photovoltaic devices at Biorgel.
  Zhongqiang Wang, from Tsientsin, China, has come to spend a period studying photovoltaic devices at Biorgel
   
• 2010-01-12 Koen Vandewal starts a postdoc at Biorgel. He will pursue studies of physics in photovoltaic and electroluminescent devices. He recently made his PhD at Hasselt University, Belgium, for his work on charge transfer states in organic photovoltaic devices
    
• 2009-10-13 Our new colleague Anders Elfwing started his PhD program on micro and nanostructured interfaces to (stem) cells September 1
   
• 2009-10-13 A new answer to the old question of what determines the photovoltage in polymer/fullerene solar cells is presented in the paper "On the origin of the open circuit voltage in polymer/fullerene solar cells", Koen Vandewal, Abay Gadisa, Jean V. Manca, Kristofer Tvingstedt and Olle Inganas, Published online: 11 October 2009, doi:10.1038/nmat2548, published October 11, 2009, on the web of Nature Materials
   
• 2009-10-13 We have demonstrated devices from a novel high performance photovoltaic polymer, giving 5.4% conversion efficiency under one sun. The polymer was synthesised in Zhishan Bo's group at  the  Institute of Chemistry, Chinese  Academy of Science in Beijing, and mixed with fullerenes to make devices  at Biorgel and also at  Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg,Germany. See JACS 10.1021/ja9057986
    

Biorgel in the News

• Science Unfolding the power of solarcells, PDF
• Science Designer Logic comes to e-textiles
• Nature photonics Ousting ITO in Organic solar cells, PDF
• Nature photonics Solar Cells Get in shape, PDF
• Photonics Flexible Connections for Flexible Solar Cells