Published 8 November 2022 Nanoplastics can be utilized by bacteria which in turn serve as additional food for the zooplankton Daphnia Magna. Photo: Per Harald Olsen, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet There is still much we don’t know about the tiny plastic particles thought to be all around us. In a new study, Tommy Cedervall and his research group show that the rate of degradation ma

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/study-nanoplastics-surprises-scientists - 2025-04-19

Published 14 November 2022 The NanoLund annual student retreat is a popular event, gathering students, PhD students and postdocs from NanoLund. Photo: Oskar Ström “Industry versus Academia” was the theme for this year’s NanoLund student retreat. It took place in Höllviken with more than 85 participants attending the exciting program. This year’s Nanolund student retreat in Höllviken had more than 

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Published 30 November 2022 Photo by Fauxels at pexels.com. 193 applications were submitted in the first PhD and postdoc project call from which 90 projects have been granted funding. The projects are awarded in total 260 million Swedish Crowns by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) for a period of up to four years. Awarded projects are distributed broadly across seven universities. “The

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Published 28 November 2022 The researchers used ultrafast laser spectroscopy (Photo: Pavel Chabera) With the help of mirrors, placed only a few hundred nanometers apart, a research team led by NanoLundian Tönu Pullerits has managed to use light more efficiently. The finding could eventually be useful for controlling solar energy conversion during photosynthesis, or other reactions driven by light.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/researchers-take-first-step-towards-controlling-photosynthesis-using-mirrors - 2025-04-19

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 6 December 2022 Tina Persson, a Global ICF Coach who trains high-performing leaders to unlock and maximize their potential for guaranteed business success, was the first speaker to guest the NanoLund Mentoring program that kicks off in January. As a gateway into the NanoLund Mentoring program, a career development wor

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-develop-your-career-first-event-facing-mentor-program-was-held - 2025-04-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 8 December 2022 The first three NanoLund Distinction Prize awardees are (clockwise) Yen-Po Liu, Lukas Hrachowina, and Sven Dorsch. The NanoLund Distinction is awarded to PhD students within the NanoLund environment who have shown particular dedication to research, education and outreach activities, have acquired broad knowledge

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-distinction-prize-yen-po-liu-lukas-hrachowina-and-sven-dorsch - 2025-04-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 20 December 2022 In order to strengthen Swedish competitiveness, Lund University is taking the initiative to launch a national effort to mobilize expertise in the semiconductor field – and a proposal for a strategy for semiconductor technology in Sweden has now been proposed during a discussion meeting hosted by Lund Univers

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/national-agenda-semiconductors-now-proposed - 2025-04-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 December 2022 Kimberly Dick Thelander. Photo: Magnus Bergström, provided by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Together with other prominent researchers and experts in the private and public sectors, Professor Kimberly Dick Thelander has been inducted as a new Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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Published 16 January 2023 Jens Schouenborg is the founder of Neuronano AB, and a professor of neurophysiology at Lund University and leads the research at LU’s Neuronano Research Center. Photo: Tove Smeds Neuronano AB – a med tech company spun out of NanoLund and the Neuronano Research Center (NRC) – recently issued new shares, according to the news service Rapidus. 20 MSEK are taking the company

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By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 24 January 2023 The NanoLund Mentoring program kicked off with 12 PhD-students meeting Tina Persson, a Global ICF Coach. Photo: Mirja Carlsson Möller Last week, NanoLund arranged a kick-off with a pilot round of 12 PhD students who are about to meet their mentors. The PhD students are all well over halfway through their PhD stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/stepping-out-comfort-zone-kick-new-nanolund-mentoring-program - 2025-04-19

Published 31 January 2023 Nanowire solar cells are being tested in space. Photo: Mostphotos With nanowires working as small solar radiation-collecting antennas, a new type of solar cell was sent into space a few days ago. By using three different materials they are a better match for the solar spectrum compared with today’s silicon solar cells. As the nanowires are light and require little materia

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-type-solar-cell-being-tested-space - 2025-04-19

Published 2 February 2023 Ville Maisi leads a project focusing on the detection of microwaves and X-ray microscopy. The picture shows a circuit board with a microwave photodiode to be used to make detectors that can identify microwave photons. Photo: Waqar Khan Ville Maisi, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and researcher at NanoLund, ha

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/measurement-microwave-photons-could-reveal-mysteries-universe - 2025-04-19

Published 17 February 2023 Nanotubes act like a Velcro strip to which the blood stem cell sticks. Photo: Martin Hjort. Stem cells from umbilical cords in Skåne are improved with nanotubes. By cross-pollinating nanotechnology with stem cell biology, researchers are creating gentle methods to ensure that more cells perform better. Blood stem cells are altered without showing that they have been modi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kind-methods-mean-happy-cells - 2025-04-19

Published 7 March 2023 Kimberly Dick Thelander is awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in chemistry “for the study of the atomic structure of nanomaterials and its characterization by in-situ electron microscopy”. With the help of the microscope, nanocrystals can become new semiconductors – and “for the study of the atomic structure of nanomaterials and its characterization by in-situ electron micro

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Published 9 March 2023 The new collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation is of strategic importance to Lund University’s expansion in Science Village, says Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. NanoLund at Lund University has established a long-term strategic collaboration with the Olle Engkvist Foundation, which intends to support the purchase of equipment for Nanolab Science Village to the tune o

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strategic-collaboration-olle-engkvist-foundation-100-msek-nanolab-science-village - 2025-04-19

Published 14 March 2023 With the injectable gel the researchers were able to grow electrodes in living tissue. Here it is tested on a microfabricated circuit. Photo: Thor Balkhed The boundaries between biology and technology are becoming blurred. Researchers at Linköping, Lund, and Gothenburg universities in Sweden have successfully grown electrodes in living tissue using the body’s molecules as t

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Published 30 March 2023 The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier and her companions in the pioneering field of “attophysics”, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz. Photo: Kennet Ruona For her pioneering work in attosecond physics, Anne L’Huillier is one of the three new laureates of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in basic scien

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Published 6 April 2023 Sara Linse (right) is awarded the European Research Council Advanced Grant. NanoLund PI Sara Linse is among the three researchers at Lund University who have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.5 million each to further develop and advance their research projects. Her project concerns research on chaperone proteins’ function in neurodegenerative diseases. The Eur

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/triple-success-prestigious-eu-grant-round - 2025-04-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 18 April 2023 NanoLund deputy director Maria Messing welcomes you to Euro Nano Forum 2023. Every second year, Euro Nano Forum brings industry, academia, policymakers, and other stakeholders together to discuss developments in nanotechnologies in an open forum. Thus, this is a conference that can build on an excellent track recor

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Published 20 April 2023 Axl Eriksson, PhD student, shows the new spectrometer developed at the Department of Chemistry at Lund University. Photo: Jens Uhlig A team of NanoLund researchers sought ways to make students understand what is actually happening inside the “magic black box” of a commercial spectrophotometer.  “This set promotes discovery in a natural and self-motivating way. By changing s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inexpensive-spectrometer-triggers-chemistry-students-curiosity-0 - 2025-04-19