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There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. NanoLund researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens to plastic in the ocean.“We have been able to show that

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles - 2025-12-12

A product from the Lund University spin out AcouSort been selected as one of the top 10 innovations of 2018 by the life science journal The Scientist. AcouSort was founded in 2010 by, among others, NanoLund member Thomas Laurell. They use acoustofluidics to combine acoustics and microfluidics to separate and trap cells and particles in acoustic fields. It is their product AcouWash which now qualif

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/acousort-product-innovation-list - 2025-12-12

University of Halmstad has made a feature of NanoLund scientist Håkan Pettersson and research recently funded with 4 MSEK by the Swedish Research Council. Read the feature on Halmstad University's homepage (in Swedish) or in the pick-ups by expertsvar (in Swedish), ETN (in Swedish) or in Evertiq (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowires-iot - 2025-12-12

Lund University spin out Cellevate secured 5 million SEK in their third fund round. The new finance will be used for scaling up marketing and sales of their nanofibre based cell culture systems which mimics connective tissue and are used for medical research.Cellevate started as a student project during the course Project Nanoengineer in the Engineering Nanoscience program which was started by Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/5-million-sek-funding-cellevate - 2025-12-12

The list of Global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 recently released by Clarivate Analytics recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. On the list are 62 researchers from Sweden of which 9 are from Lund University. Two of t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-highly-cited-nanolund-researchers-named-named-global-highly-cited-researchers-2018-list - 2025-12-12

Lars Samuelson had been awardes with Wilhelm Westrup's Prize by the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund for his excellent research on nanotechnology based upon materials science which has resulted in practical and commercial applications.Information about the prize can be found on the homepage of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (in English) and an article on the awardees in Lokaltidningen

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wilhelm-westrups-prize-lars-samuelson - 2025-12-12

NanoLund researchers in collaboration with researchers from Uppsala University and University of Copenhagen have designed an iron complex which has shown to be luminescent and to have charge-transfer capabilities. This opens up for the possibility of replacing the expensive and rare metals such as ruthenium, osmium and iridium with iron in metal complexes of photocatalysts.Read the article Lumines

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luminescent-iron-molecule-may-result-cheaper-solar-energy - 2025-12-12

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 Nanowires for reprogramming stem cells (Nanonålar för att programmera om stamceller, Ch

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/method-development-grants-c-prinz-and-e-unger - 2025-12-12

 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 is an artist’s impression of the nanoengine with the hot and cold reservoirs colo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cover-nature-nanotechnology - 2025-12-12

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 conference participants. Malins Alsved's poster was entitled ”Viability of aerosolized m

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-awards-m-alsved-and-l-gren - 2025-12-12

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 - 2025-12-12

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 balanced by great sports!

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-wins-world-championships - 2025-12-12

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 remote sensing. To Chemistry World, Heiner Linke explains: We have shown that we ca

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-dot-heat-engine-works-without-moving-parts - 2025-12-12

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 - 2025-12-12

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 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technology.Read the SPIE press

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2025-12-12

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 exposed to X-rays. Long term, the hope is that nanostructured X-ray detectors coul

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2025-12-12

Personer med typ 2-diabetes har ökad risk för hjärt-kärlsjukdomar och förtida död till följd av åderförfettning och forskare söker efter förklaringar till detta. Ett forskarlag vid Lunds universitet har nu identifierat molekylära mekanismer som kan förklara den ökade risken. Deras upptäckt kan leda till mer träffsäkra behandlingar mot åderförfettning i samband med typ 2-diabetes. Individer med typ

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forklaring-till-farliga-aderforfettningsplack-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-12-12

Under sin mer än 50-åriga karriär har diabetesforskaren Åke Lernmark gjort flera betydande upptäckter som har ökat kunskapen om typ 1-diabetes. Hans forskning bidrar till att skapa förutsättningar för ett nationellt screeningprogram i Sverige. I Sverige insjuknar omkring 1000 barn och lika många vuxna i typ 1-diabetes varje år. Sjukdomen får stora konsekvenser för de familjer som drabbas. Barn med

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forskaren-som-banar-vag-screening-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-12-12

När barnbarnet plötsligt insjuknade i typ 1-diabetes fattade barnets farmor ett beslut – hon skulle bidra till forskningen som försöker lösa den obotliga sjukdomens gåta. Tack vare donatorns generösa gåva kan nu forskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (LUDC) växla upp sina ansträngningar i kampen mot typ 1-diabetes. När ett barn drabbas av typ 1-diabetes förändras livet för alltid, inte ba

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesdiagnosen-ledde-till-mangmiljondonation - 2025-12-12

År 2025 lämnar barn inom TEDDY-studien in de sista proverna på mottagningar i Sverige, Finland, Tyskland och USA. Den internationella studien har gett mycket ny kunskap om hur typ 1-diabetes utvecklas. Nu fortsätter analysarbetet med det långsiktiga målet att förebygga sjukdomen. Sverige och Finland är de två länder i världen som har högst andel barn som insjuknar i typ 1-diabetes, med hänsyn till

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-kunskap-om-typ-1-diabetes-snart-avslutas-jattestudien-teddy - 2025-12-12