Peter Jönsson has been granted an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 M Euro for 5 years. The project named SELFOR explores how an immune response starts at a molecular level, and how our immune system can separate between “self” and “foreign” molecules.Read the Lund University press release (in Swedish), the announcement from the Swedish Science Foundation (in Swedish and in English) and more on the homepa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-peter-jonsson - 2025-09-13

Rapidus reports that Google Inc has invested 120 MSEK in Glo in a funding round during the summer. Glo is developing RGB direct-emitting display panels with better contrast and lower power consumption than LCD screens while yielding higher overall brightness than OLED.In total Glo has attracted about 1200 MSEK since the start in 2008 when it spun out from research at NanoLund (then called the Nano

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/google-invests-glos-microled-technology - 2025-09-13

Two new nanofabrication facilities are scheduled to be built in Science Village Scandinavia neighboring MaxIV and ESS. One laboratory will be a bigger version of the Lund University run Lund NanoLab which is dedicated to education and blue sky research. The other is the ProNano facility which will belong to the RISE research Institute and house pilot production facilities.Read more in Sydsvenskan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-new-nanolaboratories-be-built - 2025-09-13

NanoLund spin out Sol Voltaics secured 21 million US dollar in a funding round over the summer. The new finance will be used to accelerate commercialization of its highly anticipated solar efficiency boosting technology, SolFilm™ which promises to increase conventional solar panel efficiencies by up to 50%“This latest round of finance gives us the critical capital required to commercialize our eff

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/21-million-dollar-funding-sol-voltaics - 2025-09-13

June 8th 2017 the deputy Vice-Chancellor appointed Arkady Yartsev Professor in Chemical Physics with specialization in ultrafast spectroscopy. Read more about Arkady on his homepage.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/arkady-yartsev-appointed-professor - 2025-09-13

Håkan Pettersson has been elected Sweden's representative in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Semiconductors.The Commission on Semiconductors (C8) was established 1957 to promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Semiconductor Physics.Read more about the IUPAP Commission

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/hakan-pettersson-iupap-semiconductor-commission - 2025-09-13

In a new study, Donatas Zigmantas and Erling Thyrhaug from NanoLund, together with researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have studied nanoclusters consisting of 20 silver atoms. For the first time, the researchers managed to measure the exact energy levels and identified that the ultrafast energy flow is linked to the structural changes that occur when light excites these nanoclusters. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/silver-atom-nanoclusters-could-become-efficient-biosensors - 2025-09-13

Researchers from NanoLund and from Fudan University in China have successfully designed a new structural organization using the promising solar cell material perovskite. The study shows that solar cells increase in efficiency thanks to the material’s ability to self-organise by standing on edge.The current research study deals with perovskite, a new and promising material in the context of solar c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cells-more-efficient-thanks-new-material-standing-edge - 2025-09-13

Researchers involved in NanoLund have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change shape depending on the surrounding environment. The results can contribute to the future development of transport channels for drugs through the cell membrane.In the present study, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, togeth

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanotubes-build-themselves - 2025-09-13

A group of researchers active at NanoLund have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development of affordable and environmentally friendly materials for e.g. solar cells, light sources and displays.Through advanced molecular design, the Lund researchers have now successfully manipulated the electronic properties of iron-based molecules so that

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/modern-alchemy-creates-luminescent-iron-molecules - 2025-09-13

The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather in three dimensions. This has lead researchers at Lund University in Sweden to develop a porous “spaghetti” of tissue-friendly polymers with cavities in which the cells can develop in a more natural way.The Lund researchers have achieved go

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cells-grow-more-naturally-spaghetti - 2025-09-13

Please save the date for NanoLunds annual meeting 2017 on Thursday, September 7.We are planning to hold the meeting in Lund, in an all-day format with talks and posters during the day and a joint dinner in the evening. More information and the opportunity to register will come well before the summer break.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-annual-meeting-7-september-2017 - 2025-09-13

Professor Kenneth Wärnmark at the Department of Chemistry and active in NanoLund has been awarded the 2017 Edlund Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for his cutting-edge research on iron-based dyes in solar cells.Read more on the homepage of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemist-receives-prize-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2025-09-13

Today’s computers use vast amounts of electric power – so much so that the inability to cool the processors actually hampers the development of more powerful computers. In addition, they cannot do two things at the same time, which affects the processing speed needed.The EU is now funding a large project that aims to develop technology for an extremely powerful computer based on highly efficient m

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/parallel-network-based-biocomputation - 2025-09-13

Researchers of NanoLund, in collaboration with the group of Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, have published an article in Nano Letters showing that nanowires can be imaged using super resolution optical microscopy. In the article, GaInP nanowires were imaged using ground state depletion at a five fold resolution enhancement compared to confocal micros

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-imaging-super-resolution-optical-microscopy - 2025-09-13

The Swedish Research Council has decided to support a project lead by Jonas Tegenfeldt on diagnosing disease such as sleeping sickness and malaria in remote locations with the help of a nanotechnology based device coupled to a mobile phone camera.The method will enable quick and precise diagnosis with very minuscule amounts of sample and will first be tested in Ghana and Tanzania. A bonus is that 

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mobile-phone-microscope-diagnostics - 2025-09-13

As part of Lund University Science Week, NanoLund will host the event Nanotechnology for the Future. This day we will open up the lab and give guided tours, telling the story of the role that nanotechnology plays in current and future challenges. Come evening time, we welcome you to lectures and debates about nanotechnology in society. Welcome to k-space (Q179) at the Department of Physics, Profes

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-future-drop-march-7th - 2025-09-13

In a February 2017 paper in Nanotechnology NanoLund researchers reports the results of simulations and experiments investigating the effect of the nanowire doping profile on photodetection characteristics in InP nanowire array photodetectors, emphasizing the role of bias dependence.The study was done by V Jain, M Heurlin, M Karimi, L Hussain, M Aghaeipour, A Nowzari, A Berg, G Nylund, F Capasso, L

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/bias-affects-nanowire-photodetector-studies - 2025-09-13

February 23 the Swedish Research Council announced funding of Research Environments within natural and engineering sciences for the 2016 call. NanoLund researcher Jens Schouenborg was awarded 24MSEK over six years for his project with the Swedish title: "Utveckling av implanterbar och vävnadsvänlig optoelektronisk teknik för att monitorera och kommunicera med den medvetna hjärnans nervceller".Also

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-funding - 2025-09-13

At the General Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 14 December, Tönu Pullerits was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry.More information on the Academy's homepage in Swedish and English.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tonu-pullerits-elected-academy - 2025-09-13