福利姬

Organic Energy Materials 

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

Principal investigator: Reverant Crispin
Co-investigators: Isak Engquist, Viktor Gueskine, Zia Ullah Kahn

In Organic Energy Materials we design organic materials with a specific function for energy transport, conversion or storage. One key advantage of organic materials is that they are composed of atomic elements of high natural abundancy; which is highly relevant for mass implementation of energy technology. Energy devices can be separated into conversion and storage devices. Both types can be designed to operate as solid state or electrochemical devices.

The research unit of Organic Energy Materials is composed of about 30 researchers and divided into 3 research groups: organic energy storage (OES), organic energy harvesters (OEH) and organic electrochemical device (OED).

Our research spams from fundamental research on materials (e.g. organic electroactive polymers, forest materials, organic dyes, liquid organic hydrogen carriers) to their implementation in energy devices (e.g. organic batteries, organic redox flow batteries, organic electrolyser, organic thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics).

The use of 2D-materials and forest materials are combined in new nanocomposites for electrocatalysis, electrical conductor or thermal management. Some of our activities are also devoted to the fabrication of materials and devices with additive manufacturing methods.

Finally, we promote the Swedish spirit of entrepreneurship (Gnosjöandan) to support start up companies from birth until they take off.

Research groups

Publications from Organic Energy Materials

2025

Arman Molaei, Penghui Ding, Neha Sepat, Ziyauddin Khan, Xianjie Liu, Mats Fahlman, Reverant Crispin (2025) ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS (Article in journal)
Lovisa Byström, Mikhail Vagin, Nataliia Smyk, Penghui Ding, Hamid Ghorbani Shiraz, Olena Sevastyanova, Martin Lawoko, Gunnar Henriksson, Maciej Gryszel, Renee Kroon, Mohammad Javad Jafari, Thomas Ederth, Magnus Berggren, Pawel Wojcik, Viktor Gueskine, Reverant Crispin (2025) ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Vol. 13, p. 14804-14814 (Article in journal)
Pedro Candiotto de Oliveira, Naveed ul Hassan Alvi, Najmeh Zahabi, Filippa Wentz, Kathrin Freitag, Lars Herlogsson, Ujwala Ail, Zia Khan, Igor Zozoulenko, Reverant Crispin, Dan Zhao (2025) ACS Applied Energy Materials (Article in journal)
Varsha Joseph Ariyamparambil, Nara Kim, Sae Young Lee, Reverant Crispin, Tae Hyun Park, Ziyauddin Khan (2025) Energy Advances (Article in journal)
Arman Molaei, Zia Khan, Reverant Crispin (2025) Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research (Article in journal)
Tauseef Ahmed, Rajan Jose, Md Mehebub Alam, Reverant Crispin, Tamrin Nuge, Vipin Raj, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed Saheed (2025) Nano Energy, Vol. 142, Article 111244 (Article, review/survey)
Varsha Joseph Ariyamparambil, Reverant Crispin, Ziyauddin Khan (2025) Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, Vol. 223, Article 116060 (Article in journal)
Tran van Chinh, Mohammad Morsali, Ziyauddin Khan, Reverant Crispin, Mika H. Sipponen, Isak Engquist (2025) ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Vol. 13, p. 9053-9062 (Article in journal)
Chan Zhang, Runfeng Xiao, Mengxing Wu, Tongxin Wu, Xi Liu, Feng Gan, Jing Zhao, Jinpeng Mo, Shangzhi Chen, Canyan Che, Guangming Chen, Reverant Crispin, Chaoyang Kuang, Shaobo Han (2025) Nano Energy, Vol. 142, Article 111188 (Article in journal)
Irina V. Pushkareva, Zhixing Wu, Xianjie Liu, Maksim A. Solovyev, Sergey I. Butrim, Margarita V. Kozlova, Tatiana L. Kulova, Reverant Crispin, Emma Björk, Dmitri G. Bessarabov, Mikhail Vagin, Artem S. Pushkarev (2025) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 17, p. 32216-32227 (Article in journal)

Researchers in Organic Energy Materials

News about Organic Energy Materials

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2d-paper

"2D-Paper" proposes to combine 2D materials and cellulose to create a new thermally conductive paper substrate for flexible electronics.

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New master鈥檚 programmes in world-leading materials science

福利姬 is one of the world鈥檚 leading universities in materials science. The autumn of 2026 will see the launch of two new master鈥檚 programmes in this field. The students can look forward to an excellent labour market.

Bendable cheap thermoelectric module

Flexible module generates electricity from heat, or cooling and heating from electricity

Imagine a flexible module capable of converting waste heat into electricity, whether the surface it's attached to is flat or curved. This module can also generate heating or cooling from electricity.

Education, collaboration, innovation

Education

The Organic Energy Material group is involved in the education of phd students and contributes to several high-level courses (scientific instrumentation, organic electronics, electrochemistry). 

Collaboration

Our researchers can interact with other scientists through our the 3 centers involving LOE: The Advanced Functional Center, the ; and the  and the EU network HORATES.

Innovation

We also promote innovation by supporting start-up companies (,   and ) and establishing long term collaborations with key industrial partners ().

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