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.
NEWS
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April. 2023 We extend a warm welcome to Tim Mach, a visiting Ph.D. student from Germany, who has joined our research group.
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April. 2023. Exciting news! We are proud to announce the addition of two new postdoctoral researchers to the team. Welcome, Dr. Vijitha Ignatius and Dr. Altynay Kaidarova.
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Nov. 2022. Heyi Xia joined our group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
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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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July 2022. Welcome to the group to our new Ph.D. candidate: Isidro Florenciano Cano!
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June 2022. The group attended and presented their research at CIMTEC 2022 (Perugia/Italy)
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May 2022. Welcome to the group to our new Ph.D. candidate: Tanmay Sinha!
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Apr. 2022. The group visited the DUBBLE synchrotron facilities at ESRF (France/Grenoble) to conduct GIWAX experiments.
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Mar. 2022. We attended the KU Leuven Infodag 2022 and inspired the scientists and engineers of the future with thermoelectricity.
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Jan. 2022. Welcome to the group to our new PhD candidates: Michael Rohde, Viktor Naenen and Tzu-Yi (Thomas) Yu!
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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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Dec. 2020. Our new IEEE Sensors conference papers on printed thermoelectrics are out now! Check them here.
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Oct. 2020. Congratulations to Yuan for being appointed as an FWO PhD fundamental research fellow for her project on 3D printed inorganic thermoelectrics. Well done!
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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.
UPCOMING EVENTS
ICOE 2023 16th International Conference on Organic Electronic, 3-7 July 2023 (Madrid): Francisco will be giving an invited talk about the group's latest progress on printed and flexible energy harvesters.
5th IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) 2023, 14-16 August 2023 (San Jose, California): Francisco has been invited to give a talk about printed thermoelectrics.