By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 10 September 2024 Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Physics at LTH, Lund University, is awarded the Great Gold Medal 2024 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Anne L’Huillier is awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) Great Gold Medal for significan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/she-opened-door-world-atoms-iva-great-gold-medal-anne-lhuillier - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug and Evelina Lindén) - published 24 September 2024 Materials research today is largely conducted at the nano level. Here, a wafer is lifted with tweezers in the clean room at Lund Nano Lab. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg. Seven PhD and postdoctoral projects at NanoLund are awarded funding in the second academic call from WISE. In total, 54 p

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/seven-wise-grants-nanolundians - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 September 2024 Yuhe Zhang, PhD at the Department of Physics. Photo: private/ Kennet Ruona Yuhe Zhang, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Physics, has been awarded the Werner Meyer-Ilse Award. She is honoured for her work on using deep learning for 2D, 3D and 4D X-ray images. The Werner Meyer-Ilse Prize is awarded ev

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/werner-meyer-ilse-award-yuhe-zhang - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 27 September 2024 Grazing zooplankton, daphnia, which are an important source of food for fish, were found to be particularly vulnerable (Photo: Erik Selander/Lund University) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are surprising and the re

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/grazing-zooplankton-severely-impacted-nanoplastic-particles - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 3 October 2024 “I can do it for a certain amount of time, for a few years. It’s important to inspire the new generation and also to make science a bit more accessible to everyone,” says Anne L’Huillier about the massive attention she’s been given as a Nobel laureate. A year has passed since Anne L’Huillier became Lund University’s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-reflects-her-year-science-rockstar - 2025-03-13

Published 4 October 2024 Photo: Emelie Hilner Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) is a very popular annual event in Lund that attracts thousands of people to enjoy concerts, science-shows, arts and good food. This time NanoLund again took part in joint efforts with the Physics Department and MAX IV Laboratory to show and explain what our science is all about. One of the key events this year was a popul

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-and-physics-department-kulturnatten - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 16 October 2024 “This grant allows our team to become a key player in the global race to find solutions for the creation of future smart energy grids and the electrification of transportation,” says Vanya Darakchieva. Photo: Jonas Tegenfeldt Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Solid State Physics, receives SEK 26 million over five

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/knut-and-alice-wallenberg-grant-vanya-darakchieva - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 7 October 2024 Hierarchy of GME-dimension states. States with 𝒟GME = 1 are biseparable. Any state with 𝒟GME > 1 is GME. States with 𝒟GME = d cannot be simulated by any lower-dimensional entanglement. Cobucci, G., & Tavakoli, A, Science Advances. In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers Gabriele Cobucci and A

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-method-reveals-hidden-dimensions-multi-particle-quantum-entanglement - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 22 October 2024 Almost all the participants of the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2024 in one spot. Photo: Evelina Lindén Nano and New Frontiers in Computing – technologies and insights in biology, materials, light and quantum. That was the inspiring and captivating theme of this year’s edition of the NanoLund Annual Meeting. With a he

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/glimpses-nanolund-annual-meeting-2024 - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 23 October 2024 Lund University allocates special funds to research infrastructures of strategic importance – and Lund Nano Lab is one of them. The Vice-Chancellor has designated three of the university’s major research infrastructures as University Core Facilities. The designation signals that these research infrastructures are

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-among-three-research-infrastructures-named-university-core-facilities - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 24 October 2024 Enjoying the nice autumn weather, the 80 post docs, Ph D-students and student members at NanoLund had a good retreat at Sundsgården. Students, PhDs and postdocs at NanoLund are welcome to join a retreat to bring together junior researchers from all parts of NanoLund. The retreat is arranged every year for all Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/report-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat-2024 - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 26 November 2024 Bioelectrodes created in the brain of a chicken embryo using light (left), which provides control of the structure and the previous method without light (right). Figure: Fredrik Ek et al. Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/using-light-create-bioelectronics-inside-body - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 5 December 2024 Illustration from the article Acoustic Enrichment of Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells and Clusters from Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients, in Anal. Chem. 2024, 96, 18, 6914–6921. Per Augustsson, a researcher in biomedical engineering, is one of five Lund University researchers receiving the prestigious ERC

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-augustsson - 2025-03-13

Published 19 December 2024 NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen thanks the staff for all your contributions. The end of 2024 is getting closer, and in the midst of the final hectic attempt to finish all projects and ideas, we can look back at the year. We sadly had to say goodbye to our deputy director Maria Messing, who took a new leadership position at Chalmers. After a thorough process, the recru

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wrapping-year - 2025-03-13

Published 12 December 2024 NanoLund researchers engage in three of the competence centres invested in by Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova. It has been a productive year for all of them – below, you can read their reports from 2024. C3NiT, managed by Vanya Darakchieva has for the second time arranged its yearly meeting in Lund with great success together with industrial and academic partners. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strong-year-our-vinnova-competence-centres - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 November 2024 The Horizon Europe programme InsectNeuroNano had an exciting encounter with business students participating in a case competition to explore how they might be able to commercialize the ideas and conclusions from the project. Photo: Ola Mattisson The long-term vision of the InsectNeuroNano project is a novel on-c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/business-students-presented-ideas-commercializing-insectneuronano-bee-chip - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 13 December 2024 Martin Leijnse is the new Deputy Director of NanoLund, and our new chair is Margaret McNamee. We welcome Martin Leijnse, a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, as our new Deputy Director of NanoLund. He succeeds Maria Messing, who is currently at Chalmers. After Heiner Linke, the NanoLund Board has a new chair

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-deputy-director-and-new-chair-board - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 14 January 2025 Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires in a ligand-free way. The yield is dramatically improved using a controlled nitrogen flow, and in situ microscopy is used to visualize the growth dynamics. Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/ligand-free-method-grow-vertically-aligned-free-standing-nanowires - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 November 2024 Using superconducting semiconductor hybrids, Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Thelander, and Ville Maisi has demonstrated a continuous microwave photon detection using superconducting semiconductor hybrids. Microwave Photons contain about five orders of magnit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/continuous-microwave-photon-counting-semiconductor-superconductor-hybrids - 2025-03-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug and Evelina Lindén) - published 5 December 2024 Armin Tavakoli receives the Sten von Friesen Prize. Photo: Johan Lindskoug Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772. Armin Tavakoli's research focuses on the complex phenomena that characterize the quantum world, wher

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/royal-physiographic-society-gives-sten-von-friesen-prize-armin-tavakoli - 2025-03-13