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Plants are essential to our planet and life. Climate change and the growing population call for plants with increased tolerance to stress and for plants with higher productivity. In this open seminar, Eleni Stavrinidou will give an overview of the...

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability 鈥� WISE.

Senior Associate Professor Eleni Stavrinidou, distinguished for connecting electronics with plants, has been awarded a medal by the Italian ambassador to Sweden, at LiU鈥檚 Campus Valla.

Eleni Stavrinidou is principal investigator at Electronic plants at 91视频鈥檚 Laboratory of Organic Electronics. Her vision is to develop technologies that will enable new discoveries in plant biology.

Under Horizon 2020, the EU鈥檚 framework programme for research and innovation, nearly SEK 800 billion was awarded to researchers. At 91视频, 117 projects received funding 鈥� grants that have made several research breakthroughs possible.

Barley seedlings grow on average 50% more when their root system is stimulated electrically through a new cultivation substrate.  LiU-researchers have developed an electrically conductive 鈥渟oil鈥� for hydroponics.

The transition to fossil freedom can鈥檛 happen overnight, but it can go much faster than it is. The technology is available, and in many cases is commercially available or nearly so. The labs at 91视频 hold hope for the future.

What happens inside the carnivorous plant Venus Flytrap when it catches an insect? New technology has led to discoveries about the electrical signalling that causes the trap to snap shut.

By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, have shown that the roots of the plant become electrically conducting and can store energy.

Incorporating electronic and responsive materials in plant cells in order to produce composites that maintain the living properties of cells and, in the long term, create sustainable systems using nature鈥檚 own methods is the focus of her project.