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Nanowires, quantum dots, lasers, and much more. At the Synergy Day 2023, researchers from Lund Laser Centre and NanoLund together with MAX IV Laboratory met under the umbrella of Lund university’s profile area Light & Materials for an entire day, doing what we all love most: marveling at the worlds of science. When Light and Materials met on 10 October 2023, over 250 participants attended the sess

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/success-light-materials-synergy-day - 2025-12-13

This year’s NanoLund Student and Postdoc retreat took place in Smygehamn with almost 70 participants. They used the opportunity to dive into the topics “Work-Life-Balance” and “Communication” during the two days at the idyllic south coast of Skåne. In early October the yearly NanoLund Student and Postdoc retreat took place with almost 70 student members, PhD students, and Postdocs participating in

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/balancing-work-and-life-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat - 2025-12-13

Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell,” says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-12-13

Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to “clean up” their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Whether carelessly discarded

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-12-13

First, they discovered how DNA can move in wavelike patterns on the millimeter scale in microfluidics devices – now they also have found a way of controlling the behaviour. Four researchers connected to NanoLund have presented results that may be useful in several ways: to enhance or suppress the mixing of microfluidics, relevant for medicine and food industry as well as water treatment. In the jo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-12-13

NanoLund wants to congratulate NanoLund spin-off companies Alix Labs and NordAmps for making it to the magazine NyTeknik’s list of Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative, and promising young technology companies in 2023. For the sixteenth year in a row, the magazine Ny Teknik has chosen Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative, and promising young technology companies. Two of NanoLund’s spin-off companies hav

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-nanolund-spin-companies-prestigious-listing - 2025-12-13

Professor Lars Samuelson has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS. Professor Lars Samuelson has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, in the class of Mathematics and Physics. “This is highly recognised in China, and internationally, and certainly a nice feather in the cap for NanoLund as well”, says Lars Samuelson.The Chinese

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-new-member-science-academy-china - 2025-12-13

WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WISE is now investing 500 million SEK (45 million Euros) for equipment and infrastructure at seven universities in Sweden to establish a national infrastructure for research into sustainable materials. Close

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-12-13

Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas was about to publish a scientific article, he turned to Anastasia to illustrate a proposed cover image. The magazine immediately accepted her illustration as the front page image

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-12-13

Roughly 80 percent of all chemical products are manufactured using catalysts. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has made a movie with one of their Future Research Leaders, Maria Messing. She and her research group at Lund University use spark discharge generation to obtain more efficient and environmentally friendly processes in manufacturing nano-sized catalysts.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sparks-can-provide-more-environmentally-friendly-nano-catalysts - 2025-12-13

For twenty years now, LTH has educated students in the programme Master of Science in Engineering Nanoscience. It’s an education that blurs the boundaries between traditional fields of knowledge such as biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, and electronics. “It felt very solemn and nice to celebrate 20 years. The students I talked to thought it was inspiring to hear alumni talk about the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2025-12-13

Tetra Pak and Lund University join forces in a shared research project as part of WISE (The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability), the largest-ever research initiative in materials science in Sweden. In this project, the target is the research and development of packaging materials that are fully recyclable and that contribute to reducing the CO2 footprint. According to the W

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-12-13

How do you succeed with your Marie Curie application? Konstantin Nestmann, a postdoc at NanoLund, scored 100 out of 100 points. The magazine Curie, published by the Swedish Research Council, talked with him about this. In mid-February, thousands of European early-stage researchers received their applications for EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funding.Konstantin Nestmann, currently research

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/he-knows-how-score-maximum-points-your-eu-application - 2025-12-13

Semiconductors – the “brains” behind electronic products and systems. Whether mobile phones, automotive, energy, home appliances, or artificial intelligence, these components (“chips”) play a key role. At the same time, Asian countries account for more than half of the world’s semiconductor chip production. Swedish semiconductor capability is now to be strengthened by Lund University together with

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strengthening-swedish-semiconductor-capability - 2025-12-13

Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that supports excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, technology, and natural sciences. In addition, four current Wallenberg Scholars in our research environment receive grants: Anne L’Huill

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-12-13

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson visited NanoLund for a tour of the nano lab, discussions on how to make science, technology, engineering, and maths education more popular, to learn more about semiconductors and the technology behind them. Lund Nano Lab had a prominent visit from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his entourage – and got to talk about semiconductors, nanoscience, nanotechnology, and

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prime-minister-visit-lund-nano-lab - 2025-12-13

Optimise lab routines, minimise unnecessary consumption of lab consumables, recycle when possible, and improve user behaviour. That’s some of the improvements that can make the Lund Nano Lab greener, according to the project that Sarah McKibbin gets funding for, from the Lund University Sustainability Fund. Sarah McKibbin, process and tool responsible research engineer at Lund Nano Lab, receives s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sarah-mckibbin-gets-funding-greening-lund-nano-lab - 2025-12-13

If you want to read about the Prime Minister’s visit to Lund Nano Lab, our new Wallenberg Scholars, the WISE investment in Lund, the strengthening of Swedish semiconductor capability, the Tech Girl of the Year (yes, she is an LTH student), and how to score maximum points in an EU application – open your mailbox, because perhaps, somewhere in the dusty corners of the quarantine-function, you will f

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spring-newsletter-here - 2025-12-13

NanoLund has together with Swedish partners at Linköping, Chalmers and KTH been invited to be part of a pilot line for Wide Bandgap materials. The local contribution is based on the equipment available in Lund Nano Lab as well as expertise in III-Nitride and gallium oxide materials synthesis and characterization in the research groups of Vanya Darakchieva and Erik Lind. Many in Europe have been ea

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-and-lund-nano-lab-has-leading-role-european-chips-act - 2025-12-13

By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circuits in quantum computers get bigger, they become more difficult to control. Researchers have demonstrated a new way to construct quantum circuits for individual light particles. This could enable larger and more complex circuits – crucial to un

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-12-13