Francisco Molina-Lopez
Research

• Oct.2024 Warm welcome to our newest postdoc, Juhyung Park!  ​​
   

• Aug.2024. We're thrilled to announce that our first PhD student, Yuan Tian, has successfully graduated. Congratulations, Dr. Tian!
   

• 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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• Altynay has been awarded the prestigious MSCA European Postdoc Fellowship to work on skin-compatible substrates for thermoelectrics. Congratulations!
   

• Jan. 2024. Our recent work in laser-printed flexible inorganic thermoelectrics has been highlighted by KU Leuven News (link here)!
   

• 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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• Sep. 2023. The 1st paper of the F. Molina-Lopez group is out in Advanced Materials! In this collaboration with Prof. Jan Fransaer, we demonstrated the electrodeposition of liquid metal for 3D integrated soft electronic circuits. Congrats to Bokai Zhang for his participation.
   

• Sep. 2023. Hasan E. Baysal's IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference on 3D-printed stretchable organic thermoelectrics is now out! Check it out here.​

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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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• Dec. 2021. Our research topic, Printed and Flexible Thermoelectrics, has been highlighted by the journal Matter (Cell Press) as one of the 35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2021! Check the article here.

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• Mar. 2021. Anisotropy in printed thermoelectric materials can make a big difference! Check here our latest review about it in Nanoscale.

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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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• Dec. 2020. Francisco was granted an FWO Junior Research Project to work on the development of printed small organic solar cells for integration in smart contact lenses, in collaboration with Prof. A. Vásquez Quintero from UGent.​​

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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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