News
Congratulations to Luca for his talk to e-MRS Spring Meeting 2022!
On the 1st of June 2022 (second anniversary of our Chair), Luca presented our latest results at E-MRS Spring Meeting 2022 with a focus on biogenic electrolytes for lighting. He presented promising results obtained with cellulose-based polyelectrolyte applied in light-emitting electrochemical cells.
Congratulations to Marco for his presitigious Master Thesis Award!!!
Marco won the ‘Wissenschaftspreis Straubing 2022’. This price is awarded to students and scientists working at the Competence Center for Renewable Resources and have drawn attention to themselves through special achievements and outstanding dissertation or master’s thesis. Marco was awarded for his master’s thesis focused on the implementation of new fluorescent proteins and biopolymers in hybrid LEDs under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa at the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials (TUM Campus Straubing).
We are on the TV!!
Rubén had the opportunity to give a small insight into our research to a wide audience. He was featured in the show “alles wissen” on hr-fernsehen.
Here you can find the link to view his part in the show:
We are on the news!!
It is a great honor that our recent publication in Adv. Mater. has been highlighted by several social media!
Below you can find a nice description on our recent on using multivarite analysis to design first class blue and white copper(I) complexes for ionic based thin film lighting devices.
Enjoy the read…more is coming soon.
Nice meeting with old and future collaborators
Rubén hold a lecture on the strategies towards sustainable thin-film lighting systems in the SFB-Kolloquium organized by the U. Heidelberg.
Fruitful scientific discussions with old collaborators (Prof. Kivala and Mastalerz) and new collaborations on going.
Special thanks to Milan for organizing this excellent time!!
Bright, stable, and easy to recycle lighting
A low-cost and easy-to-manufacture lighting technology can be made with light-emitting electrochemical cells. Such cells are thin-film electronic and ionic devices that generate light after a low voltage is applied. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Turin have now used extensive data analysis to create first-class electrochemical cells from copper complexes that emit blue and white light.
Congratulations to Luca for the new contribution published on Advanced Functional Materials!
Thanks to the fruitful collaboration with Universidad de La Rioja, a new family of sustainable and biogenic electrolytes for lighting has been introduced! Our cellulose-based active layer showed high performance and self-stability.
You can find more information here:
We welcome our new team member Ginevra Giobbio
We are very pleased to welcome our new team member Ginevra Giobbio.
She is a PhD student working under the supervision of both Dr. Sylvain Gaillard (University of Caen, France) and Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa (Technische Universität München, Germany). This shared project aims at developing new electroluminescent earth abundant transition metal complexes and their implementation in light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC).
Check out our latest contribution on Angewandte Chemie!
We employed chalcogen-bonded p-type semiconducting ribbons as hole transport layers in light-emitting electrochemical cells achieving on par performances with state-of-art semiconductors! Thanks to the great collaboration and the European funding ITN-ETN project STiBNite.
You can find more information here:
Huge success in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship!!
Dr. Kumer and Dr. Zieleniewska have been awarded with the MSCA fellowship to work on designing new emitters for thin-film lighting devices and dual devices for light and temperature management, respectively. In addition, another fellow is on the reserve list. We keep finger crossed!!
Thanks to the European Commission for funding these new idea!