F. Molina-Lopez
@fmolinalopezlab.bsky.social
Associate Professor Materials Engineering @KU Leuven; ERC grantee; Formerly Hardware Engineer @Apple, Postdoc @Stanford, PhD @EPFL, Major @University of Granada.
Printed hybrid organic-inorganic stretchable multifunctional materials.
Printed hybrid organic-inorganic stretchable multifunctional materials.
Today we went for bowling and dinner afterwards. It felt so good to see the group enjoying some free time together out of the lab.
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Today we went for bowling and dinner afterwards. It felt so good to see the group enjoying some free time together out of the lab.
Congratulations to Dr Hasan Baysal! The 3rd graduate of the group and our expert in 3D printing and PEDOT:PSS aerogels!
Thanks to the jury members and the funding agencies . @giorgiomattana.bsky.social
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@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Thanks to the jury members and the funding agencies . @giorgiomattana.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Congratulations to Dr Hasan Baysal! The 3rd graduate of the group and our expert in 3D printing and PEDOT:PSS aerogels!
Thanks to the jury members and the funding agencies . @giorgiomattana.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Thanks to the jury members and the funding agencies . @giorgiomattana.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Always great to meet my friend and colleague @giorgiomattana.bsky.social from @itodys.bsky.social who came to @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social to serve as jury member for the PhD defense of Hasan Baysal. We are enjoying Belgium beer diversity.
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Always great to meet my friend and colleague @giorgiomattana.bsky.social from @itodys.bsky.social who came to @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social to serve as jury member for the PhD defense of Hasan Baysal. We are enjoying Belgium beer diversity.
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
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social; @erc.europa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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
@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...
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Stress-engineered 3D thin-film micro-thermoelectrics for integrated energy harvesting and thermal management
This study presents a mechanical self-assembly strategy to fabricate high-performance, CMOS-compatible microscale thermoelectric devices (μTEDs). Plan…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🧵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...
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.
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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!
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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
Thank you, @erc.europa.eu & @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Process and design guidelines for inkjet-printed organic photovoltaic cells – using the example of PM6:Y6
Inkjet printing (IJP) is a promising non-contact and digital technique for the precise deposition and patterning of functional materials on reduced areas, enabling versatile applications in both indoo...
pubs.rsc.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
Thank you, @erc.europa.eu & @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Seems our approach must interest some 3D printing industries. Thanks for the coverage!
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@3dprintingnews.bsky.social
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KU Leuven researchers 3D print stretchable PEDOT:PSS aerogels for wearable thermoelectrics - 3D Printing Industry
A team from KU Leuven,a leading Belgian research university, has demonstrated the first omnidirectional 3D printing of PEDOT:PSS aerogels, enabling stretchable interconnects and high-aspect-ratio ther...
3dprintingindustry.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
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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
@erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
@teconversion.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
@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!
September 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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!
September 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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
@fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
@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
@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
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
@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.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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!
September 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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
👉 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
July 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
👉 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
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📣 Out now! First results of the 2025 ERC Proof of Concept call.
150 grants – each worth €150,000 – will help ERC grantees to bridge the gap between the discoveries stemming from their frontier research and their practical application.
Recipients, projects, locations👉 buff.ly/pPccOPc
#ERCPoC
150 grants – each worth €150,000 – will help ERC grantees to bridge the gap between the discoveries stemming from their frontier research and their practical application.
Recipients, projects, locations👉 buff.ly/pPccOPc
#ERCPoC
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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
@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
Thanks @giorgiomattana.bsky.social for hosting.
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
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
@teconversion.bsky.social
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
@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
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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
@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...
@teconversion.bsky.social;
Laser-printed flexible sustainable thermoelectrics (for PhD) www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Laser-printed flexible sustainable thermoelectrics (PhD position)
Develop flexible, high-performance thermoelectric energy harvesters and coolers via laser printing. Sustainable materials will be investigated as an alternative to traditional bismuth telluride. The f...
www.kuleuven.be
June 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚀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...
@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!
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
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@thermoelectric.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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
@erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
@thermoelectric.bsky.social