Welcome to the FMolina-Lopez research group website!
The FMolinaLopez Research team is working on the development of printed, flexible/stretchable/soft hybrid organic-inorganic electronic materials. Our vision is to develop new materials and processes to enable harvesting and storing energy from large-area and curved surfaces and develop mechanically conformal sensors and actuators. The focus is on the connecting line that spans from fundamentals to applications such as autonomous systems for wearables, soft robotics, and the IoT.
NEWS
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Check out our new opening for a PhD to work on inorganic flexible thermoelectrics here. Hurry up and apply by July 18.
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Apr. 2025 We welcome our new postdoc, Shubhradip Guchait!
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Mar. 2025 Our new paper on brush-printed PEDOT:PSS for performing sustainable organic thermoelectrics is now out in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations Bokai and the rest of the team!
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Feb. 2025 Juhyung has been awarded the prestigious MSCA European Postdoc Fellowship to develop organic thermoelectric generators. Congratulations!
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Jan. 2025 Our new review on hybrid functional stretchable materials is finally out in Materials Science & Engineering: R! This work is intended to be a guide for engineers to design their hybrid stretchable sensors and energy devices. Congratulations to the two first co-authors: Altynay and Viktor.
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Jan. 2025 Congratulations to Hasan and the team for publishing our latest work on omnidirectional 3D printing of PEDOT:PSS aerogels in Advanced Science.
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Oct.2024 Warm welcome to our newest postdoc, Juhyung Park! ​​
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Aug.2024. We're thrilled to announce that our first PhD student, Yuan Tian, has successfully graduated. Congratulations, Dr. Tian!
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Check out our latest review on alternative sustainable materials for thermoelectric energy harvesting. This is a collaboration with the University of Granada (Spain) enabled by our two visiting PhD students, Victor Toral and Sonia Gomez Gijon.
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Feb. 2024 Altynay has been awarded the prestigious MSCA European Postdoc Fellowship to work on skin-compatible substrates for thermoelectrics. Congratulations!
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Jan. 2024. Our recent work in laser-printed flexible inorganic thermoelectrics has been highlighted by KU Leuven News (link here)!
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Dec. 2023. Congratulations to Yuan, Isidro, and the other co-author for getting their last work on laser-printed ultra-flexible inorganic thermoelectrics published in Advanced Materials... And it is now part of the series Rising Stars, dedicated to celebrating research from early career investigators.​
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Oct. 2022. Tanmay Sinha and Viktor Naenen got awarded the FWO Ph.D. Fundamental Research Fellowship. Congratulations!​​​​​
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Prof. Zhenan Bao from Stanford University is one of the 2021 KU Leuven honorary doctors. She was nominated by Francisco. Congrats Zhenan! See the official intro and interview video here.​​​​​
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Sept. 2020. Francisco got awarded the ERC starting grant to work on the project 3D ALIGN: Enhancing the performance of 3D-printed organic thermoelectrics by electric field-assisted molecular alignment. ​
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UPCOMING EVENTS
ECME 2025 (17th European Conference on Molecular Electronics), 22-26 September 2025 (Cambridge, UK): The group (Tanmay and Francisco) will be there. Tanmay will present a poster on inkjet printed OPVs, and Francisco will share our latest developments on thermoelectrics on Thursday, the 25th of September at 11 am. Hope to meet you there!
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