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Welcome to the FMolina-Lopez research group website!

The FMolina-Lopez Research Lab team is working on the design, fabrication and characterization of printed, organic/inorganic flexible electronics. Our vision is to develop new materials and processes to harvest and store energy from large-area and curved surfaces. We are also interested in developing sensors and actuators based on additive manufacturing. We will apply the outcome of our multidisciplinary research to open up new applications in autonomous and wearable systems for biomedicine & the IoT.

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NEWS

  • Sep. 2023. Thrilled to introduce Sonia Gómez Gijon, our incoming visiting PhD student hailing from Spain! 
     

  • Aug. 2023. We're delighted to extend a warm welcome to Michael Ng, a postdoctoral researcher from New Zeland!

  • Jul. 2023.  We are pleased to extend a cordial welcome to Defne Hiz, a visiting bachelor student from Turkey.

  • June 2022. The group attended and presented their research at CIMTEC 2022 (Perugia/Italy)               

  • Mar. 2022. We attended the KU Leuven Infodag 2022 and inspired the scientists and engineers of the future with thermoelectricity.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.​

  • Dec. 2020. Our new IEEE Sensors conference papers on printed thermoelectrics are out now! Check them here. ​ 

  • 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. ​

UPCOMING EVENTS

ECME 2023 16th European Conference on Molecular Electronics, 2-6 October 2023 (Bari, Italy): Francisco will be giving a contributed talk about the group's latest progress on flexible organic thermoelectric energy harvesters.

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