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Klas Tybrandt

Professor, Head of Unit

Principal Investigator at Soft Electronics, Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Presentation

Professor Klas Tybrandt is the PI and unit manager of the Soft Electronics group at 糖心直播 (LiU). The group develops stretchable composite materials, design concepts and devices to adapt electronics for the soft human body.

Klas has published more than 70 peer reviewed articles and is the inventor of seven patents/patent applications. He is the recipient of the 糖心直播 Consolidator Grant (2023), Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2022), SSF Future Research Leader (2020), VR starting grant (2019), and SSF Ingvar Carlson Award (2018). Klas is PI within the Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC), the Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE), and the Advanced Functional Materials center at LiU. He also serves in the WISE university representative group for LiU.

Klas Tybrandt received his Master鈥檚 degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from LiU in 2007. Later the same year he started his PhD studies on the topic of organic bioelectronics under Prof. Magnus Berggren (LiU). The work was focused on the development of ionic components and circuits, including the highlights of inventing the first ionic transistor functional at physiological salt concentrations and the first complementary ionic circuits. These inventions and others resulted in a total of three granted patents. In 2012, Klas Tybrandt received his PhD in Organic Electronics and continued to work in the group as a postdoc for a year.

In 2013, Klas received a Postdoc Fellowship from the Swedish Research Council and in early 2014 he joined the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Janos V枚r枚s. From this point forward he changed his research topic into stretchable electronics, with focus on soft and stretchable materials for bioelectronics.
In 2016, Klas joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at LiU as Assistant Professor and established the Soft Electronics group in 2017. Klas earned his docenture in 2018 to become Associate Professor, was promoted to Senior Associate Professor in 2021 and became full Professor in 2024.

Publications

2026

Yuyang Li, Mohammad Javad Jafari, Dongqing Lin, Justinas Palisaitis, Yangpeiqi Yi, Jonas Oshaug Pedersen, Yulong Duan, Per O. 脜. Persson, Magnus Jonsson, Thomas Ederth, Klas Tybrandt (2026) Small Science, Vol. 6, Article e70401 (Article in journal)
Fabio Cicoira, Magnus Berggren, Erica Colaprico, Reverant Crispin, Isak Engquist, Drew Evans, Simone Fabiano, Jiaxin Fan, Zijing Guo, Guoying Gu, Amali G. Guruge, Ryohei Ikeda, Magnus Jonsson, Laure V Kayser, Sadaf Khoomortezaei, Chi-hyeong Kim, Jinsil Kim, Jeonghun Kwak, Renee Kroon, Junghyun Lee, Jinhao Li, Baoyang Lu, George G. Malliaras, David C. Martin, Masakazu Mukaida, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Stephen J. K. O'Neill, Hiroshi Okamoto, Tetsu Sato, Oren A. Scherman, Alexandra Sand茅hn, Daniel Simon, Jeong Han Song, Eleni Stavrinidou, Jun Takeya, Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Alessandro Troisi, Klas Tybrandt, Qingshuo Wei, Meijing Wang, Shun Watanabe, Yuhang Wu, Bicheng Zhu, Igor Zozoulenko (2026) FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS, Vol. 11, Article 032501 (Article, review/survey)
Xian Xie, Yunpeng Zhong, Faheem Mushtaq, Shuaifei Zhu, Weijun Zhou, Aiman Rahmanudin, Klas Tybrandt, Siyu Tian, Ruiqin Zhang, Nara Kim, Jiang Zhou, Walid A. Daoud (2026) Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 65, Article e24846 (Article in journal)

2025

Filippa Wentz, Mohsen Mohammadi, Klas Tybrandt, Magnus Berggren, Rickard Arvidsson, Aiman Rahmanudin (2025) Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 13, p. 19983-19999 (Article, review/survey)
Mohsen Mohammadi, Jin Shang, Yuyang Li, Aiman Rahmanudin, Darius Jakonis, Magnus Berggren, Lars Herlogsson, Klas Tybrandt (2025) Small, Vol. 21, Article 2501175 (Article in journal)

Research

News

A flexible battery pulled in different directions.

A fluid battery that can take any shape

Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at LiU have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way.

Two pipettes poring liquids on to a disk.

Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

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.

Close-up illustrating that the gold nanowires combined with soft silicon rubber are stretchable.

Soft gold enables connections between nerves and electronics

Gold does not readily lend itself to being turned into long, thin threads. But researchers at LiU have now managed to create gold nanowires and develop soft, stretchable electrodes that can be connected to the nervous system.

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