By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 11 January 2024 Professor Emeritus Lars Samuelson is now a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science. 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-new-member-science-academy-china - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 January 2024 90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materia

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 22 January 2024 Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. 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 stu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 30 January 2024 NanoLund Deputy Director Maria Messing and her research group at Lunds University use spark discharge generation to obtain more efficient and environmentally friendly processes in the manufacture of nano-sized catalysts. Roughly 80 percent of all chemical products are manufactured using catalysts. The Swedish Fou

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sparks-can-provide-more-environmentally-friendly-nano-catalysts - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén and Sara Hängsel) - published 16 February 2024 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 nic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2025-07-29

Published 29 February 2024 “You need to build deep knowledge and do academic research in parallel with industrial development. Programs like WISE provide this opportunity,” says Tetra Pak’s Eva Gustavsson. Photo: Gunnar Menander 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 r

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Nilsson / Tidningen Curie) - published 8 March 2024 Konstantin Nestmann was aiming for Lund for his postdoc: “Here they do a lot of experiments with quantum dots, while I work theoretically with quantum dots, so it felt like a very good match.” Photo: Kennet Ruona How do you succeed with your Marie Curie application? Konstantin Nestmann, a postdoc a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/he-knows-how-score-maximum-points-your-eu-application - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 21 March 2024 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. Sw

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strengthening-swedish-semiconductor-capability - 2025-07-29

Published 26 March 2024 Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva, our new Wallenberg Scholars, along with Anne L'Huillier, Stephanie Reimann, and Kimberly Dick Thelander. 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 rese

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 9 April 2024 Rasmus Törnblom and Vanya Darakchieva are watching the Swedish Prime Minister being introduced to the mysteries of nanoscience by Yue Zhao and Kristi Adhami. Photo: Evelina Lindén Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson visited NanoLund for a tour of the nano lab, discussions on how to make science, technology, engineering,

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prime-minister-visit-lund-nano-lab - 2025-07-29

Published 18 April 2024 Sarah McKibbin is a research engineer at Lund Nano Lab, and has recently been funded for a sustainability project making the lab greener. 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 Mc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sarah-mckibbin-gets-funding-greening-lund-nano-lab - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 19 April 2024 The newsletter of NanoLund is out! But might have got caught in quarantine on it’s way to you. 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 i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spring-newsletter-here - 2025-07-29

Published 26 April 2024 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. Man

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-and-lund-nano-lab-has-leading-role-european-chips-act - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 May 2024 The new findings could enable larger and more complicated circuits – crucial to unlocking the enormous computational power of quantum computers. Photo: Unsplash. By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-07-29

Published 10 April 2024 Looking into the vacuum chamber of the Photoemission Electron Microscope in Lund: The research team used a similar device to study electrons that had been released from a sample using laser pulses. Photo: Jan Vogelsang When electrons move within a molecule or semiconductor, this occurs on unimaginably short time scales. A Swedish-German has now made significant progress tow

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/progress-investigation-ultrafast-electron-dynamics-using-short-light-pulses - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 May 2024 This year’s RTM focused on new technologies, such as AI and quantum technology, but also cybersecurity and processes such as digital and green transition. Photo: IVA / Erik Cronberg These are busy days for Lars-Erik Wernersson. After participating in the 2024 Royal Technology Mission (RTM) to the Netherlands in a del

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/just-arrived-back-royal-trip-now-starting-blocks-semiconductor-conference - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 13 June 2024 The centre will be a hub for imparting knowledge, training companies in the design of circuits, and help gaining access to the facilities that the EU invests in to try out new technology in semiconductors, so-called pilot lines. Lund University, LTH and NanoLund are happy for another milestone since Vinnova proposed

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/eu-centre-semiconductors-will-boost-swedish-small-businesses - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 18 June 2024 “Cell Nanostraw” is the name of the winning entry to the NanoLund Image Competition 2024. Picture: Sara Davidsson Bencker. The jury was out for a long time. But now, we can announce the winner in both categories: “Best visual communication of scientific content” and “Most aesthetically appealing image”. “Not far fro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-image-competition-we-have-winner - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 20 June 2024 One of the things the Lindau Meeting participants had the opportunity to experience in 2023 was a boat trip to Mainau. Photo: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings For the 73rd time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place 30 June–5 July 2024 in Bayern, Germany, by the beautiful Boden

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/next-stop-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-07-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 7 November 2024 Brunnshög in north-east of Lund is no ordinary construction site – a world-leading environment for research and innovation is emerging here. The nanolab is paving the way for the university’s establishment at Science Village between MAX IV and ESS. The procurement process is concluded. It has been decided that Ve

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vectura-landlord-future-nanolab-science-village - 2025-07-29