Congrats to Bokai Zhang, the second PhD student to graduate from the group. He worked on brush-printed organic thermoelectrics. The first PhD graduates are instrumental in building the lab, both literally and culturally. Thank you! @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social; @erc.europa.eu

🧵1/5 I am happy to share our latest collaborative work in Nano Energy: "Stress-engineered 3D thin-film micro-thermoelectrics for integrated energy harvesting and thermal management". You can access for free for 50 days at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today we had the pleasure to welcome Prof Zheng Chen at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. He shared with us his impressive research at @ucsandiego.bsky.social in battery regeneration process.

Last week we hosted @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and IMEC a Korean delegation from Postech EE. Thank you Prof. Jiwon Lee, @jangenoe.bsky.social, and the sponsor for the organization. I hope great collaborations come from this meeting!

We'd love to power small wearables with light! Please check our work on inkjet-printed organic photovoltaic cells – using the example of PM6:Y6 - published in Materials Advances pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Thank you, @erc.europa.eu & @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Between talk and talk a (fast) walk! Another way to visit Cambridge #ECME2025

Seems our approach must interest some 3D printing industries. Thanks for the coverage! @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @3dprintingnews.bsky.social 3dprintingindustry.com/news/ku-leuv...

Enjoying #ECME2025 at @universitypress.cambridge.org with Tanmay (PhD). We will share a poster and a talk about inkjet printed organic PVs and organic thermoelectrics being developed in our group @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @teconversion.bsky.social

1st reunion of the Bao group Alumni yesterday in Zürich! It is great to catch up with such excellent scientists!

Thrilled to welcome Prof. Yang Yang’s research team from CAS to visit our labs at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and exchange research ideas. It was great to learn about deep sea exploration using flexible sensors in China. Quite impressive!

Grateful to my group member, Isidro Florenciano, for representing the group and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social at the ECT25 conference in Nancy last week. He shared our latest results on laser-printed inorganic flexible thermoelectrics. @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

We hosted LIMNI Summer School – NanoFabMat2025 participants in our lab @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social ! Great energy and a chance to showcase our latest research. Proud of the team & grateful to the organizers for including us in the program. @erc.europa.eu ; @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

Keeping nice traditions. This year, we celebrate the 600th anniversary @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social with the University Trail. 10 km to discover the beautiful Arenberg campus, including going inside buildings! Here a team representing the Department of Materials Engineering.

Congratulations to Sachin and Nastasha on successfully defending their Master’s theses. Sachin worked on composites for wearable ultrasound devices, and Nastasha on inkjet-printed electrodes for organic PVs. Well done, both!

Big shoutout to Jean and Bokai for presenting at #ICOE2025 in Coimbra 🇵🇹! They shared our latest work on: 👉 Substrate-induced crystallinity in brush-printed PEDOT:PSS for enhanced Seebeck 👉 Inkjet-printed electrodes enabling ITO-free OPVs for wearables & IoT @erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

I am happy to see my name in the list! In the project SUSTEG, we’ll try to make sustainable thermoelectric generators in the easiest possible manner @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social . Then the Swedish start-up EMickers will help us couple them with low-power systems. @erc.europa.eu

Happy to share a bit of the group’s work about the often “forgotten” link between organic thermoelectric materials and skin-mounted devices with the @itodys.bsky.social group at the @upcite.bsky.social ⁦‪Thanks @giorgiomattana.bsky.social for hosting. @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

L’aventure française commence! I will be a guest professor @upcite.bsky.social for a couple of weeks to learn more about organic thermoelectrics. Thanks @giorgiomattana.bsky.social for the invitation! If you happen to be around, ping me! @teconversion.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

The FMolina-Lopez group enjoying the Materials Eng. summer event. Good food, drinks 🍺 and games make it easier to endure the 35 C at Leuven today. @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

🚀Join our team! We are seeking a strongly motivated PhD 🎓 candidate to investigate laser-printed flexible inorganic thermoelectrics ⚡️🔥. Apply via the link below before July 18th! @teconversion.bsky.social; Laser-printed flexible sustainable thermoelectrics (for PhD) www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Thank you to the organizers to put together such a nice symposium at E-MRS! ⁦

We kick-started E-MRS Spring meeting with Altynay’s great talk! Tomorrow I will be sharing in Symp. G the our recent results on printed wearable thermoelectrics. Thomas will be presenting a poster on PEDOT:PSS Raman analysis. @erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @thermoelectric.bsky.social

I just returned from a flash trip to DTU for a nice PhD thesis defense. Hope to come back with more time in the future. Congrats to the new doctor!

Isidro’s work on flexible, laser-printed inorganic thermoelectric generators is almost complete — and to be published soon, we're more hopeful than ever. Proud of the progress. Ready for what’s next! @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

🔥Great opportunity to learn 🔬🧪 and enjoy 🥢🌅 this summer! The HORIZONS 2025 – Materials Innovation with AI & Automation Conference in Vietnam 🇻🇳, 27-27 Aug. Impressive line-up and location: horizons2025.vinuni.edu.vn Hurry up! The submission deadline is only a few days away.

Today, we uncovered the world of thermoelectrics to 1Y Eng. students @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social . They "competed" 🏆 to build the most performing generator⚡from some materials they characterized. We hope to have convinced young students that materials science is exciting! Thank you to the TAs!

Always enriching and interesting to participate in PhD defenses. This time I got to wear the @uhasselt.bsky.social ‬⁩toga at the PhD defense of Dries Theunissen from ⁦Wouter Maes and Koen Vandewal group. Fresh Dr. Theunissen synthesized some nice wide band gap #OPV materials for indoor use.

🧪🔬 New group picture spring 2025. Enjoying the sunny Belgian spring 😎! Postdocs, PhDs and master students included.

🧵1/ Organic thermoelectrics (OTEs) require not only performing conducting polymers but also a way to pattern them. We demonstrated that bruh-printing induces molecular alignment, leading to a fewfold boost in conductivity, in patterned PEDOT:PSS films. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....