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After having been postponed last year due to the pandemic, the annual NanoLund retreat for student members, PhD students and postdocs did a well-received return in October. With a focus on networking, attendants from across NanoLund disciplines enjoyed two days filled with activities at Backafallsbyn on Hven island. With people being largely restricted in interacting with co-workers during the pas

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/young-nanolundians-have-met-again-report-nanolund-student-retreat-2021 - 2025-12-13

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is investing over SEK 3 billion in research that creates the conditions for a sustainable society. This will be done by developing new and improved materials and manufacturing processes, which, among other things, aim at better technology for the energy systems of the future and the control of pollution and toxic emissions. In addition, an increased investm

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/billions-materials-science-sustainable-world - 2025-12-13

Last Monday a large group of undergraduates gathered in K-space at the promise of free pizza and inspiring presentations on brain-inspired designs in engineering – given by four NanoLund researchers. Mattias Borg and Lars-Erik Wernersson of the Nanoelectronics department at LTH spoke about novel memory devices that act as artificial synapses in neuromorphic systems, and the future role these devic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/successful-pizza-science-night - 2025-12-13

Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomaterials increases, research questions about safety are becoming urgent. ‟We need to know more about the conditions in which nanoparticles can affect us and how we can safely handle these materials.” Her research is about understanding how nanoparticles are generated and releas

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-12-13

Earlier this year, Magnus Borgström and Yang Chen received a special commendation in the Future Innovations for their idea “Transparent solar cells: Solar cell windows”. In this podcast produced by VentureLab (Lund University), they talk about the recent developments of their idea. They discuss how transparent solar cells based on semiconductor materials work and how they can be used. One question

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/venturelabs-innovation-podcast-including-nanolund-researchers-magnus-borgstrom-and-yang-chen - 2025-12-13

Peter Jönsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and affiliated to NanoLund, is awarded this year's prize from the Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Foundation. Jönsson is being recognized for his studies of protein-protein interactions on cell surfaces that control communication between cells. Congratulations on the award, Peter, how does it feel? – Thank you! I am honoured and totally

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemistry-scientist-awarded-studies-cell-communication - 2025-12-13

Have you always wanted to visit the cleanroom Lund Nano Lab? Or are you curious about how researchers separate cancer cells from the blood with lab-on-a-chip technique? Or – maybe you just want to make your own pH indicator out of red cabbage. We hope that you haven’t missed LTH’s Christmas calendar filled with exciting experiments. Each day a short film is being published, where students at LTH s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/christmas-calendar-lth-gift-keeps-giving - 2025-12-13

Superconductors are a cornerstone of quantum computers and particle detectors, among other things. However, a common problem is that their efficiency is degraded by various interferences. Now, researchers have come one step closer to explaining what is happening through high-precision measurements. The results are now being published in Nature Physics. Superconductivity depends on the presence of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/moments-silence-point-way-towards-better-superconductors - 2025-12-13

Using a mathematical model, researchers have been able to link confirmed covid-19 cases with intensive care admissions and deaths. The model, which allows prediction and planning of health care burden, could be valuable during the current pandemic as well as in future epidemics. A Swedish research team, including Lund University, has used a so-called FIR model (a type of filter for digital systems

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mathematical-model-useful-pandemic-planning - 2025-12-13

A new study shows that carbon nanotubes used as additives to polymers – to make materials lighter, stronger, and electrically conductive – do not necessarily degrade under the conditions that normally prevail in waste incineration plants. However, if the temperature is increased, or the residence time in the flue gas is extended, they will be destructed. “Contrary to what has previously been thoug

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/higher-temperatures-are-needed-ensure-carbon-nanotubes-decomposition - 2025-12-13

Using X-ray and neutron scattering, a team of researchers in Lund has succeeded in mapping the fibril structure of the beta-amyloid 42 protein that contributes to Alzheimer’s disease. The new knowledge could be an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in the future search for effective drugs. In Alzheimer’s disease, the atrophy of the nerve cells in the brain leads to memory problems and cognitive

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-detailed-knowledge-harmful-protein-can-help-fighting-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-13

A long-standing bottleneck in technology development has been how to make processors and memories work faster together. Now, researchers in Lund have presented a new solution in which a memory cell is integrated with the processor, so that calculations can be performed much faster as they take place inside the memory circuit itself. In an article in Nature Electronics, the researchers describe the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enables-supercomputers-future - 2025-12-13

The European Innovation Council Accelerator has awarded Aligned Bio €2.3 million in funding, with the possibility of a further €2.3 million in venture capital. This is to accelerate the company’s investment in the detection of biomarkers at the molecular level using the patented Aerotaxy nanowire production process. This spring, the company is expected to close a new share issue of a further SEK 5

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/eur-23-million-aligned-bio-european-innovation-council-accelerator - 2025-12-13

A multidisciplinary research team at Lund University has innovatively tackled what has long been a major problem in stem cell research. The project has now been awarded a Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council, ERC. Jonas Larsson, Professor of Molecular Medicine, and his research colleague Ludwig Schmiderer, together with Martin Hjort, researcher at NanoLund, have developed the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-nanotubes-can-increase-number-blood-stem-cells - 2025-12-13

The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2022 is awarded to Professor Anne L’Huillier of LTH, along with Paul Corkum of the University of Ottawa, Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and Ludwig Maximilian of the University of Munich, for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Each year since 1978, the Wolf Foundation awards the prestigious Wolf Pr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-12-13

Solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the future. The study is published in Nature Communications. The sunlight that hits Earth during one hour corresponds roughly to humanity’s total energy consumption

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2025-12-13

In Lund, you can find world-leading research in circuit design, new materials, and algorithms that utilize the properties of semiconductor components. Also, strong infrastructure for basic research and new innovations, together with close co-operation with industry. This means an opportunity to be an important part of the ambition to make Sweden a nation at the forefront of developing the next gen

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sweden-can-make-leading-contribution-future-semiconductor-technologies - 2025-12-13

A close collaboration between researchers in sustainable production and materials engineering and researchers at NanoLund is now taking a step up – and together they are developing new initiatives. Nanotechnology and nanoscience offer a key to the development of materials as well as new knowledge about different material properties and limitations. Nanotechnology provides tools to make it possible

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unique-collaboration-model-sustainable-production-industry - 2025-12-13

NanoLundian Stanley Heinze gets an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, for creating a deeper understanding of the insect brain. Stanley Heinze, Principal investigator at NanoLund and researcher at the Department of Biology, will study insect brains and their neural circuitry. His project is about trying to find clues in a specific part of the brain that controls the behavior

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-insect-brain-mapping - 2025-12-13

Are you struggling to writing an application for a call on sustainable development? Do not despair! The Sustainability Forum at Lund University has summarised tips for you of things to think about, to facilitate the writing process. The nine tips of things to think about in the application writing process have been summarised in a short animated movie: Animation: 9 tips for writing research applic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tips-writing-research-applications-calls-sustainable-development-and-agenda-2030 - 2025-12-13