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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 tek

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-funding - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund spin out company Hexagem, founded in 2015, has raised 2 MSEK from Almi Invest, Rapidus reports.GaN, which is a high bandgap semiconductor, is the main contender for next-generation power electronics and mobile platforms, including 5G. Today, GaN technology is hampered by challenges in wafer fabrication and ma

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/funding-hexagem - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The NanoLund spin out company Sol Voltaics was named "Rapidus Company of the Year" at a ceremony in Malmö on January 24 2017. Organized by Swedish technology and business news publisher Rapidus, the award encompasses all business categories in the Öresund region of Sweden.The recipient of "Company of the Year" is reco

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sol-voltaics-wins-rapidus-company-year-2016 - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NANOWIRE WEEK will take place at the end of May 2017 in Lund, Sweden. Nanowire Week is the merger of two long-standing workshops, NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop, and is the foremost event worldwide for all areas of nanowire research. The aim of Nanowire Week is to promote lively discussion on all areas of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-week-2017 - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tommy Cedervall has been interviewed about nanoplastics on two different occations during September. WHO issued a report on an analysis of current research related to microplastics in drinking-water and Tommy was interviewed on the need for more research because we do not yet know how nanoplastics affect humans and na

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tommy-cedervall-interviewed-nanoplastic - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Martin Leijnse and three researchers from University of Copenhagen have received in total 10 million Euro for an ERC Synergy project called ‘Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems'. Here, nonlocal means that quasiparticles encode a quantum state that is hidden from any local measurement, while

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-leijnse-involved-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent work involving NanoLund's Lars Samuelson, Hongqi Xu and Sören Jeppesen closely collaborating with a group at University of Tokyo/RIKEN in Japan and a group at Peking University in China describes how they have successfully realized a double nanowire Josephson junction device and discovered an enhancement of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/double-nanowire-josephson-junction-device-frontier-physics-research - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has published the recipients of grants for instrument-, technology- or method development. From a total of 342 project applications 33 projects - of which two are by NanoLund researchers - were granted. Christelle Prinz and Eva Unger are funded for their projects on Nanowi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/method-development-grants-c-prinz-and-e-unger - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  The front cover of the October issue of Nature Nanotechnology is decorated by an illustration from an article by NanoLund researchers who experimentally demonstrated a nanoscale heat engine in which only electrons at a specific energy flow between the reservoirs generating an electric current. The image on the cover

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cover-nature-nanotechnology - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the 10th International Aerosol Conference in Saint Louis, USA in September 2018, NanoLund PhD students Malin Alsved and Louise Green from Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at Lund University won poster prizes - ”Overall top poster contest winner” - as they both finished in the top 5 after votation among the confere

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-awards-m-alsved-and-l-gren - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Irene Geijselaers won the best student poster award at the 34th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) in Montpellier, France this summer. The poster was entitled “Determination of the band offsets in Wurtzite-Zinc-blende InP nanowires by means of photoluminescence spectroscopy”.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-student-poster-award-irene-geijselaers - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund scientists are successful in more than “just” nanosience: our warmest congratulations to our Board member and scientist Sara Snogerup Linse for winning gold over both the Middle and the Long distance in her age group in the  World Masters Orienteering Championships this summer. It’s great to see great science

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-wins-world-championships - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A recent article in Nature Nanotechnology by NanoLund researchers show that a quantum dot-based heat engine can convert heat into work with an efficiency similar to that of similar machines with moving parts. As quantum dot-based engine has no moving parts it may be useful in applications such as nanotechnology and re

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-dot-heat-engine-works-without-moving-parts - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Calle Preger was awarded with ”Best Poster Award” at the conference Aerosol Technology in Bilbao for his poster “Using COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Predict Aerosol Deposition Spot Size of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP)”

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-calle-preger - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund PhD student Mohammad Karimi has been selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund researcher Jesper Wallentin has been granted an ERC starting grant. His project will investigate whether semiconductor nanowires can be used as high resolution X-ray detectors. Wallentins group have some initial results that show that they can get a measurable electric current from single nanowires that are e

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. June 11-14 2018 are the dates of the Marcus Wallenberg symposium Tailored surfaces in operando conditions. The meeting will take place in Ystad, Sweden, and is devoted to recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The aim of the workshop is to

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/conference-tailored-surfaces-operando-conditions - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anne Borg from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science at Lund University.Anne Borg is a physicist focusing om materials science and surface science and she has a long history of collaborating with Lund University and researching at MAX-lab. She is

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-borg-named-honorary-doctor - 2026-08-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On November 15-16, 2017 Lund Nano Lab (LNL) hosted a second joint LNL-Plasma-Therm Plasma Processing workshop. The Workshop focused on the fundamentals of plasma reactors, mechanisms of etching and deposition as applied to nanofabrication and covered state-of-the-art etching and deposition techniques. Dr. David Lishan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plasma-processing-workshop-lund-nano-lab - 2026-08-27