Published 3 May 2020 From the left, Lin Zhu, beamline scientist; Alexei Zakharov, MAXPEEM beamline manager; Axel Knutsson, Material Specialist at Alfa Laval; Oskar Darselius Berg, Alfa Laval. Photo by MAX IV. Through the advanced synchrotron radiation facility MAX IV, senior scientists and materials specialists from NanoLund are contributing to giving Alfa Laval detailed insights of the nanometer

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/protecting-nano-thin-oxide-layer-studied-alfa-laval - 2025-02-19

Published 14 May 2020 NanoLund has had an excellent 2019 – with an increasing amount of publications, more than 70 invited talks all over the world, 21 new graduated PhDs, and much more. Having been a Strategic Research Area of Sweden for a full decade now, NanoLund can look back on yet another year of success. 286 scientific publications, directly related to nanoscience, sets a new record. Of the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-annual-report-out - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 May 2020 Due to the Corona pandemic, scientists all over the world have begun focusing on every aspect possible of the virus. NanoLund poses no exception. To detect a virus or other infectious agents, medical and clinical laboratories usually employ the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This method, invented 1983, is widely us

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-scientists-mobilize-against-covid-19 - 2025-02-19

Published 3 July 2020 Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 6 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics and chemical physics – for application. Initial deadline for applications: August 25, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:    Energy saving LEDs based

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/6-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-02-19

Published 2 July 2020 The annual international nanoscience student conference INASCON is coming up. This year, it is held in Lund 11–13 August, broadcasted online, open for anyone interested in nanoscience: students, academics or businesses. INASCON is an annual, student-organized conference on nanoscience and technology, hosted in different countries since 2007 and originally to be hosted this ye

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-goes-digital-time-register - 2025-02-19

Published 3 July 2020 An exciting position as center coordinator at NanoLund is open for application. Are you a master of coordinating and managing? Do you have a strong interest in science, technological development and how it can be used in future society? Apply for the position as coordinator and get the chance to work at Sweden’s largest environment for nanoscience and nanotechnology! We are l

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-center-coordinator-nanolund - 2025-02-19

Published 12 August 2020 NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world.   This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around COVID-19 the conference is broadcasted online and has attr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2025-02-19

Published 24 August 2020 Researchers from strategic research areas NanoLund and StemTherapy have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical applications. The discovery and development of therapeutic biomolecules

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2025-02-19

Published 13 December 2021 “I completely believe that nanotechnology is one of the absolutely best tools we have to solve several of our sustainability challenges”, says Christina Isaxon, researcher at NanoLund. Photo: Kennet Ruona Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomaterials increases, research questions about s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-02-19

Published 14 December 2021 Earlier this year, Magnus Borgström and Yang Chen received a special commendation in the Future Innovations for their idea “Transparent solar cells: Solar cell windows”. In this podcast produced by VentureLab (Lund University), they talk about the recent developments of their idea. They discuss how transparent solar cells based on semiconductor materials work and how the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/venturelabs-innovation-podcast-including-nanolund-researchers-magnus-borgstrom-and-yang-chen - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 16 December 2021 Peter Jönsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and affiliated to NanoLund, is awarded this year's prize from the Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Foundation. Jönsson is being recognized for his studies of protein-protein interactions on cell surfaces that control communication between cells. Congra

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemistry-scientist-awarded-studies-cell-communication - 2025-02-19

Published 20 December 2021 Have you always wanted to visit the cleanroom Lund Nano Lab? Or are you curious about how researchers separate cancer cells from the blood with lab-on-a-chip technique? Or – maybe you just want to make your own pH indicator out of red cabbage. We hope that you haven’t missed LTH’s Christmas calendar filled with exciting experiments. Each day a short film is being publish

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Published 22 December 2021 When the Cooper pair in the superconductor broke, the quasiparticles were able to make their way, via so-called quantum mechanical tunnelling, through the insulation to the copper, where the researchers observed them with a charge detector. Picture: Aalto Superconductors are a cornerstone of quantum computers and particle detectors, among other things. However, a common

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/moments-silence-point-way-towards-better-superconductors - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 21 December 2021 The new study could be useful for future pandemics. ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH Using a mathematical model, researchers have been able to link confirmed covid-19 cases with intensive care admissions and deaths. The model, which allows prediction and planning of health care burden, could be valuable during the current

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mathematical-model-useful-pandemic-planning - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 4 January 2022 Jenny Rissler is a Principal Investigator at NanoLund, and active in the Mistra Environmental Nanosafety research program. Photo: Kennet Ruona A new study shows that carbon nanotubes used as additives to polymers – to make materials lighter, stronger, and electrically conductive – do not necessarily degrade under the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/higher-temperatures-are-needed-ensure-carbon-nanotubes-decomposition - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 25 January 2022 Doctoral student Veronica Lattanzi hopes the results of the new study can be useful in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Photo: Johan Joelsson Using X-ray and neutron scattering, a team of researchers in Lund has succeeded in mapping the fibril structure of the beta-amyloid 42 protein that contributes to Alzheimer’s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-detailed-knowledge-harmful-protein-can-help-fighting-alzheimers-disease - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 20 January 2022 A long-standing bottleneck in technology development has been how to make processors and memories work faster together. Now, researchers in Lund have presented a new solution in which a memory cell is integrated with the processor, so that calculations can be performed much faster as they take place inside the m

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enables-supercomputers-future - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 27 January 2022 The European Innovation Council Accelerator has awarded Aligned Bio €2.3 million in funding, with the possibility of a further €2.3 million in venture capital. This is to accelerate the company’s investment in the detection of biomarkers at the molecular level using the patented Aerotaxy nanowire production proce

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/eur-23-million-aligned-bio-european-innovation-council-accelerator - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter ) - published 8 February 2022 Electron microscope image showing a blood stem cell on top of a membrane with nanotubes. Photo: M. Hjort and L. Schmiderer A multidisciplinary research team at Lund University has innovatively tackled what has long been a major problem in stem cell research. The project has now been awarded a Proof of Concept gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-nanotubes-can-increase-number-blood-stem-cells - 2025-02-19

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 9 February 2022 Professor Anne L’Huillier is one of the 2022 Wolf Prize laureates in physics. The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2022 is awarded to Professor Anne L’Huillier of LTH, along with Paul Corkum of the University of Ottawa, Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and Ludwig Maximilian of the Universit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-02-19