Summary by Fritjof

Prof. Magnus Berggren Linköping University Sweden
https://liu.se/en/employee/magbe98

Lecture in San Diego . Prof Magnus Berggren: Artificial Nervous Systems and Electronic Plants.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mg7roeyojbyf
https://spie.org/news/berggren-op16-plenary
Organic electronics is explored as the signaling bridge between biological systems and electronics targeting new opportunities in diagnostics, therapy and biotechnology. Using the coupled charge accumulation and ion exchange of conjugated polymer-polyelectrolyte systems different sensor and actuator devices have been developed. Included in circuits, these can simultaneously record and regulate physiology and functions at high spatiotemporal resolution. As artificial nervous systems, such circuits have successfully been applied, in vivo, to combat e.g. pathological pain and epileptic seizures in tissue and animal models. Applied to, and manufactured inside the vascular systems of plants, e.g. rosa floribunda, analog and digital organic circuits have successfully been achieved, thus open up for new "green" energy technologies and electronic control over growth and production processes in living plants.

LiU research one of the biggest breakthroughs of the year
The magazine Physics World has named LiU research one of the year’s major breakthroughs in physics globally. In their study, carried out at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, the researchers showed that soft electrodes can be grown in living tissue.
https://liu.se/en/news-item/odlade-elektroder-ett-av-arets-storsta-genombrott

The organic side of electronics lies in the use of semiconducting plastics, conjugated polymers. The world's first organic transistor and the world's first chemical chip were developed at LiU.
https://liu.se/en/research-area/organic-electronics

Electronics to control plant growth. A drug delivery ion pump constructed from organic electronic components also works in plants. Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University and from the Umeå Plant Science Centre have used such an ion pump to control the root growth of a small flowering plant, the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).
https://liu.se/en/article/elektronik-styr-plantans-tillvaxt-

Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine
https://liu.se/en/research/wcmm

Prof Bernd Senf
www.berndsenf.de