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En folkbildande partikelfysiker med en rad världsupptäckter i forskarportföljen och en experimentell professor som utvecklat teoretiska modeller i gränslandet mellan kemi och fysik. Melissa Franklin och Clifford Woodward har utsetts till hedersdoktorer vid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Melissa Franklin, partikelfysiker vid Harvard University, har gjort betydande insatser i f
Fjärilarnas vingar är unikt stora och breda i förhållande till resten av kroppen jämfört med vingarna hos andra flygande insekter och hos fåglar. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitet studerat aerodynamiken när fjärilarna flyger. Resultaten förklarar nyttan med den extrema vingformen och de flexibla vingarna och kan komma till användning vid tillverkning av små drönare. Lundaforskarna har i detalj
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fjarilens-vingslag-overraskar-forskare - 2025-09-29
Redan i slutet av 1960-talet lanserades teorier om en möjlig förekomst av supertunga grundämnen. Deras mest långlivade atomkärnor skulle kunna ge upphov till en så kallad ”stabilitetsö” långt bortom grundämnet uran. Men nu visar en studie, som letts av kärnfysiker vid Lunds universitet, att ett 50 år gammalt kärnfysikmanifest måste revideras. Det tyngsta grundämnet som finns i naturen är uran, var
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/karnfysikalisk-seglats-mot-mytomspunnen-o - 2025-09-29
Forskare vid Lunds universitet har upptäckt hur svampar besitter individuella karaktärsdrag, och hur deras hyfer (enskilda svamptrådar i jorden) beter sig på olika sätt när de utforskar och tar sig fram genom jordens mikroskopiska labyrinter. Undersökningarna har gjorts i laboratorium och de underjordiska gångarna har tillverkats syntetiskt av silikonpolymer. I mikroskop har forskarna kunnat följa
https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/militarer-ormar-och-maratonlopare-i-svamparnas-varld - 2025-09-29
Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed molecular machines, that is, molecules that convert light int
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-09-29
The complex challenges in our society require new solutions. We need high-quality, challenge-relevant research brought together in collective efforts over subject and sector boundaries, combined with strong curiosity-driven research. With this need in mind, the Strategic Research Areas (SRAs) were initiated about ten years ago. Lund University has now launched a new strategy for its SRAs. NanoLund
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-strategic-research-areas-looking-future-0 - 2025-09-29
A team of researchers from Lund University has imaged the beam focus at the hard X-ray nanoprobe NanoMAX using a single nanowire as the detector. The result is an unprecedented ultrahigh-resolution 3D image of the 88 nanometer diameter focus revealing fine details of the beam. “A basic way of describing an X-ray experiment is that a well-defined beam illuminates a sample and interacts with it. Dow
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/imaging-x-ray-focus-nanomax-single-nanowire - 2025-09-29
Each year, the analysis company Clarivate Analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. The list includes three names from Lund University, and Sara Linse, principal investigator at NanoLund, is one of them. The Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate Analytics identifies scientists and s
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-among-worlds-most-cited-researchers - 2025-09-29
A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology among others – and was recently presented in a doctoral thesis. The brain is both our mos
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-09-29
Hermann Grimmeiss, who founded the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin. In 1965-1996, Prof. emerit. Hermann Grimmeiss was appointed as first professor in Solid State Physics and Head of the Department at the Technical University in Lund, and thus created the cradle of what later developed i
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/medal-founder-semiconductor-physics-research-lund - 2025-09-29
If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers Jakob Löndahl and Malin Alsved at Lund University. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit when we sing – and by extension – if we contribute to the i
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-09-29
By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared to the Higgs mechanism. The discovery can, among other things, provide more knowledge about quantum mechanical processes that are similar to the processes in which matter changes its state from gas, liquid, or solid form
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-09-29
Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and study diseases in various ways, such as cancer. In an ongoing ERC project, she and
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2025-09-29
Since January 1, NanoLund has a new director – Anders Mikkelsen, and a new deputy director – Maria Messing. “Organizing the work in NanoLund will be an interesting challenge, but we take it on with great enthusiasm and look forward to engaging with the entire staff,” says Anders Mikkelsen. “It is now time to look forward into 2021, but first we would like to extend our warm thanks to Heiner Linke
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-directors-maria-messing-and-anders-mikkelsen - 2025-09-29
‘JSAP fellow’ is presented to individuals who have remarkably contributed to the progress of applied physics through the continuous activities in Japan Society of Applied Physics. Lars Samuelson, Professor of Solid State Physics and founder of NanoLund receives the Award of ”JSAP Fellow International” for ”Creation and Application of Compound Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures and Contribution t
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-receives-award-japan-society-applied-physics - 2025-09-29
As odd as it sounds, many scientists have attempted to place extremely small diamonds inside living cells. Why? Because nanodiamonds are consistently bright and can give us unique knowledge about the inner life of cells over a long time. Now physics researchers Elke Hebisch and Christelle Prinz from the strategic research area NanoLund have succeeded in injecting a large number of nanodiamonds dir
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/fluorescent-nanodiamonds-successfully-injected-living-cells - 2025-09-29
The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical Society Max Born Award 2021 “for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics, realizing and u
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2025-09-29
We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more than 50 years ago. And in recent years its development has begun to stall. According
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2025-09-29
Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers and Lund University) have joined forces in a new collaboration together with major Swedish companies from the metals and manufacturing industries. The project aims to facilitate and improve the industry’s use of MAX IV and ESS through direct collaborations between industrial and academic
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2025-09-29
Idea Competition: 5 000 Euro prize for the best idea for new application areas for biocomputation The Horizon 2020 project Bio4Comp, coordinated by Heiner Linke (NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University) announces an award for ideas to find applications for network-based computers using bio-molecular agents. The challenge is to find applications in the field of diagnostics or lab- on-a-ch
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/alternative-uses-computing-devices-using-nanoscale-biomolecules - 2025-09-29
