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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund Member Thomas Laurell works with Emma Niméus from the Medical Faculty on a method to separate cells from breastcancer tumor tissue according to size, density and mechanical properties. The goal is to learn more about the properties of different cell types and to use this knowledge for better and more targeted
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/collaboration-project-breast-cancer-cells - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tommy Cedervall and fellow researchers are setting up a theatre play and a workshop in collaboration with the theatre Sagohuset in Lund, targeted towards high school students.The play is a one man show by actor Torbjörn Lindberg, and was developed through dialog with the group of researchers. The play ends with a fa
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/theatre-nanoplastics - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute to the development of more efficient solar cells using this iron-base
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/iron-based-solar-cells-track-becoming-more-efficient - 2026-09-07
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 - 2026-09-07
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 - 2026-09-07
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 - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the 31st MAX IV User Meeting on September 23-25, 2019 Susanna Hammarberg won the Student Poster Award 2019 for her poster: “Strain mapping of nanowire device using scanning XRD”.Read more about the poster award (in English) or read the news at MAXIV's home page (in English).
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/poster-award-susanna-hammarberg - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced on October 1st that Kenneth Wärnmark wins one of 20 prestigious grants for ground-breaking research projects. The grant of 35 MSEK over five years is to support the project “Photofunctional iron complexes”, aiming to harvest solar energy with iron-based molecules.Kenn
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-project-funding-kennet-warnmark - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2026-09-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Luke Hankin is starting today as new Head of laboratory for Lund Nano Lab, succeeding Maria Huffman. Luke comes from a position as Engineering Director at Sol Voltaics where he has lead a team of 20 people. He was responsible for lab construction, equipment development, clean room, c
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luke-hankin-new-head-lund-nano-lab - 2026-09-07
Jesper Wallentin has been awarded the Röntgen-Ångström Project Grant for the project “X-MOOSE: X-ray Microscopy with On-chip Sample Environments”, together with colleagues at Lund University, the Max Born Institute in Berlin, and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He will receive SEK 7.97 million over four years. Röntgen-Ångström Cluster (RÅC) is a German-Swedish research collaboration in struc
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/deeper-understanding-dynamics-within-ferroic-materials - 2026-09-07
In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers Fan Wu, Tu C. Nguyen-Phan, Richard Cogdell, and Tönu Pullerits suggest that optical microcavities can be a strategic tool for modifying excitation energy transfer between molecular complexes. “We show that optical microcavities can enhance energy transfer between photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, even in the weak coupling regim
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/promising-approach-towards-efficient-artificial-light-harvesting - 2026-09-07
Metal joining remains an essential yet challenging process in manufacturing, particularly for components with small dimensions, multiplex, delicate geometries, or dissimilar metals, where conventional joining methods can be insufficient. In a recent study, researchers introduce Gas Actuated Bonding (GAB), a novel method that establishes a new framework for controllable, flexible metal joining. Joi
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/gas-actuated-bonding-new-framework-controllable-flexible-metal-joining - 2026-09-07
Semiconductors are a cornerstone of all electronics around which the modern world revolves. But they need to become much more energy efficient. Researchers at two Swedish universities are now investigating whether semiconductor materials with ultra-wide band gaps could be the solution. The Knut and Alice Foundation recently published a piece portraying Vanya Darakchieva. There are materials that a
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/semiconductors-future-magical-if-they-work - 2026-09-07
Quantum. The word is appearing more and more frequently in discussions about future technologies, security, medicine and computing. At the same time, the field is often perceived as both abstract and difficult to understand. But what exactly is quantum physics, and why is there so much interest in it right now? “Quantum physics was developed to describe the very smallest building blocks of the uni
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/what-quantum-science-and-why-everyone-talking-about-it - 2026-09-07
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier has been awarded this year’s Röntgen Plaque. The award ceremony took place on 30 May in Remscheid, Germany. Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, receives the award for her groundbreaking contributions to attosecond physics. Her research has made it possible to study and understand ultrafast electron dynamics in matter, notabl
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-rontgen-plaque-2026 - 2026-09-07
In a joint initiative, six Swedish universities are now joining forces to establish the Swedish Center for Quantum Technology, a national centre for research, innovation, education and capacity building in quantum technology. The initiative aims to strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness in the field and to serve as a driving force for the development and application of the technology. Globally, quant
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-centre-strengthen-sweden-quantum-race - 2026-09-07
