Åsa Haglund (at Chalmers University, NanoLund Affiliated Member) has won an ERC consolidator grant with the title: “UV-LASE: Out of the blue: membrane-based microcavity lasers from the blue to the ultraviolet wavelength regime”, including support on approximately 2 MEuro.Read the press release on the homepage of the European Research Council.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-asa-haglund - 2025-08-27

Alfred Larsson won best poster award at the winter school "Conventional and High-energy spectroscopies for inorganic, organic and bimolecular surfaces and interfaces" held 2-6 December 2019, Florence, Italy. The poster title was "Electrochemical Fabrication of Palladium Nanowires in Nanoporous Alumina Templates" and the prize was, in addition to the honour, 250£.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-alfred-larsson - 2025-08-27

Kimberly Dick Thelander has been named Wallenberg scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out world-class research. Kimberly got a grant of 17.5 MSEK total which can be freely used for research for five years w

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-08-27

The vesicles function as the body’s internet, and carry information on the patient’s disease state. To capture and decode them – that’s the challenge, says professor Thomas Laurell. Photo: Lars Owesson A hot topic among cancer researchers is vesicles, nanoparticles that flow in our veins in their billions and which have proven to hold information on the health status of the body. Now the hope is t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/early-detection-diseases-aided-bodys-own-nanoparticles - 2025-08-27

Take a leading role in Europe’s future center of Materials Science – apply for the position. At Lund University we are currently building Europe’s future center for materials research. It will combine, within a single campus area:• Excellent university-based materials research;• Lund Nano Lab, part of the national infrastructure for micro- and nanofabrication, Myfab;• MAX IV, the world’s most bril

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-professor-materials-science - 2025-08-27

Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of the project:   One of the seventeen sustainable development goals is concerned with sustainable cons

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2025-08-27

Science Village is being built in north-east Lund in the new city district Brunnshög. Picture by Science Village. The process of establishing a new Nanolab in the immediate vicinity of MAX IV and ESS is moving further as decided by the Board of LTH. The lab – Nanolab Science Village – will be the first step to establishing Lund University’s research operations in Science Village. The location for

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-towards-new-nanolab-science-village - 2025-08-27

Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 11 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics, chemistry and biomedicine – for application. Initial deadline for applications: May 4, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:Materials scienceSmart nanomaterials for green-t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/11-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-08-27

There are many questions concerning the coronavirus and infection prevention that need to be answered as soon as possible. Jakob Löndahl, associate professor in aerosol technology at Lund University and faculty member of NanoLund is currently working to analyse air samples from patient rooms at Lund University hospital trying to detect the virus. Read the full news article at Lund University websi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/air-samples-coronavirus-patient-rooms-being-analysed - 2025-08-27

Oxana Klementieva and her colleagues in Lund and at Synchrotron SOLEIL in France have used a new method, optical photothermal spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study protein structures in neurons from mice affected by early stage Alzheimer’s disease. “We saw that the structure of the protein changes in different ways depending on where in the nerve cell it is. So far, there have been no methods that can pr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-08-27

Anne L’Huillier has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million for the project Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses. With the grant from ERC Anne and colleagues plan to use laser technology to create ultra-short light pulses to study the motion of electrons within atoms and molecules. Their work will provide a new basic understan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-awarded-anne-lhuillier - 2025-08-27

In a paper, recently published in Nature Communications with researchers from NanoLund and Lund Laser Centre, the ultrafast optical dynamics of porous gold nanosponges filled with zinkoxide was studied. This type of hybrid plasmon-emitter system could be useful for future optical computers as they are able to strongly amplify laser light. The study provides fundamental new insights into how hybrid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/porous-gold-nanosponges-can-be-useful-future-computers - 2025-08-27

In a recent review article Donatas Zigmantas and colleagues from 16 universities and institutes in Europe, Canada, the US and Singapore critically assess previously proposed persistence and role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting. In the article they analyse the recent work on coherence in photosynthetic complexes, in particular, the results from femtosecond multidimensional s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-quantum-effect-photosynthetic-light-harvesting - 2025-08-27

From the left, Lin Zhu, beamline scientist; Alexei Zakharov, MAXPEEM beamline manager; Axel Knutsson, Material Specialist at Alfa Laval; Oskar Darselius Berg, Alfa Laval. Photo by MAX IV. Through the advanced synchrotron radiation facility MAX IV, senior scientists and materials specialists from NanoLund are contributing to giving Alfa Laval detailed insights of the nanometer thin oxide which prot

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/protecting-nano-thin-oxide-layer-studied-alfa-laval - 2025-08-27

NanoLund has had an excellent 2019 – with an increasing amount of publications, more than 70 invited talks all over the world, 21 new graduated PhDs, and much more. Having been a Strategic Research Area of Sweden for a full decade now, NanoLund can look back on yet another year of success. 286 scientific publications, directly related to nanoscience, sets a new record. Of the 148 PhD students acti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-annual-report-out - 2025-08-27

Due to the Corona pandemic, scientists all over the world have begun focusing on every aspect possible of the virus. NanoLund poses no exception. To detect a virus or other infectious agents, medical and clinical laboratories usually employ the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This method, invented 1983, is widely used in biomedical research, to make copies of macromolecules like DNA or RNA from a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-scientists-mobilize-against-covid-19 - 2025-08-27

Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 6 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics and chemical physics – for application. Initial deadline for applications: August 25, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:    Energy saving LEDs based on branched nanowires 

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/6-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-08-27

The annual international nanoscience student conference INASCON is coming up. This year, it is held in Lund 11–13 August, broadcasted online, open for anyone interested in nanoscience: students, academics or businesses. INASCON is an annual, student-organized conference on nanoscience and technology, hosted in different countries since 2007 and originally to be hosted this year in Lund, Sweden. Ho

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-goes-digital-time-register - 2025-08-27

An exciting position as center coordinator at NanoLund is open for application. Are you a master of coordinating and managing? Do you have a strong interest in science, technological development and how it can be used in future society? Apply for the position as coordinator and get the chance to work at Sweden’s largest environment for nanoscience and nanotechnology! We are looking for a new cente

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-center-coordinator-nanolund - 2025-08-27

NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world.   This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around COVID-19 the conference is broadcasted online and has attracted a huge interest. –

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2025-08-27