We need to transition our society away from fossil fuel to electrification, move away from unsustainable agriculture, provide
new healthcare tools, and automate the industries to move people out of poverty.
This radical transition also requires radical new materials, in areas like energy, medicine/diagnostics, and robotics.

Our lab at KTH addresses these challenges by developing new functional materials, and devices that rely on a combination of engineered biomass (e.g., cellulose nanomaterials) as well as state-of the art electronic materials, like conducting polymers, and low-dimensional materials (e.g. MXenes, TMDs, CNTs, or nanoparticles). We also develop new nanomaterials and formulations, new physics (from polymer physics to the physics of mixed conduction) and new methods of fabrication primarily self-assembly in water (e.g., enhance Layer-by-layer techniques, or additive manufacturing)

Some of the research areas that we currently pursue are:
1. Advanced biosensors like DNA sensors that are portable and near zero-cost using materials like paper, and textile and printing and fabricate advanced micro total analysis systems.

2. Energy storage devices for beyond lithium ion batteries. We use new fabrication methods like molecular self-assembly combined with nanomaterials, like CNTs, MXenes, bio nanocarbons and more to engineer sustainable nanocomposite electrodes for the batteries of the future.

3. Nanoelectronic materials for Intelligent sytems: We develop new materials and methods to create mixed ionic electronic materials (MIECs) and understand their fundamental properties, for applications like neuromorphic computers, to electronic actutors and sensors for robotics.