Photo by Flockine/Pixabay 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. Wh

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-09-09

“We were surprised by how nicely the symmetry break of the pillars on the micrometer scale was reflected in the overall behavior of the waves on the millimeter scale,” says Jonas Tegenfeldt. 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 NanoLu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-09-09

Each year, the magazine Ny Teknik elects Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative and promising young technology companies. Photo: Tobias Ohls 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-nanolund-spin-companies-prestigious-listing - 2025-09-09

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 Mathematics and Physics. “This is highly recognised in China, and internationally, an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-new-member-science-academy-china - 2025-09-09

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 materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WISE

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-09-09

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 student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas was about to publish

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-09-09

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 Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has made a movie with one of their Future Researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sparks-can-provide-more-environmentally-friendly-nano-catalysts - 2025-09-09

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 - 2025-09-09

“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 research initiative in mater

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-09-09

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 at NanoLund, scored 100 out of 100 points. The magazine Curie, published by the Swedish Research Counc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/he-knows-how-score-maximum-points-your-eu-application - 2025-09-09

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 - 2025-09-09

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 research, primarily in medic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-09-09

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, and maths education more popular, to learn more about semiconductors and the techno

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prime-minister-visit-lund-nano-lab - 2025-09-09

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 McKibbin gets funding for,

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sarah-mckibbin-gets-funding-greening-lund-nano-lab - 2025-09-09

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 is an LTH student), and how to score maximum points in an EU application – open your

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spring-newsletter-here - 2025-09-09

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 - 2025-09-09

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 circuits in quantum computers get bigger, they become more difficult to control. Resear

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-way-designing-circuits-could-lead-large-scale-quantum-computers - 2025-09-09

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 toward a better understandi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/progress-investigation-ultrafast-electron-dynamics-using-short-light-pulses - 2025-09-09

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 delegation led by HM The King and IVA’s Chair Marcus Wallenberg, he headed right into

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/just-arrived-back-royal-trip-now-starting-blocks-semiconductor-conference - 2025-09-09

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 a competence center for semiconductor technology in Sweden within the EU program C

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/eu-centre-semiconductors-will-boost-swedish-small-businesses - 2025-09-09