“If we manage to solve how and why particles and light behave the way they do, and under what conditions, we can lay the foundation to whatever new technology there might be,” says Ville Maisi. Photo: Pixabay If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-08-29

Take your chance to work in a thriving and excellent research environment, recently celebrating the honor of being the workplace of a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. Spread the word: We are looking for an early career researcher with pioneering ideas in the field of optics of semi­conductor nanostructures. As an assistant professor, you will be embedded into the strategic research area NanoLund –

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tenure-track-position-assistant-professor-physics-semiconductor-optics - 2025-08-29

Eva Unger (in the middle) and Michael Saliba (next to her, right) receives the award from Helmholtz president Otmar D. Wiestler, Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Carla Seidel. Combining different disciplines and working together across centre boundaries to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time – the energy transition – Eva Unger and her team fellows receive the first Helmholtz High Impact Aw

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/helmholtz-high-impact-award-nanolund-member-eva-unger - 2025-08-29

WISE (Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability) has opened two calls for the development of graduate courses and summer schools in 2024 with relevance to materials science for sustainability. The call for WISE Summer School 2024 aims to support the organisation of a one-week summer school. The summer school must be able to accommodate a minimum of 50 WISE graduate school members

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wise-funding-call-graduate-courses-and-summer-schools - 2025-08-29

The general concept of the droplet-free zone around the metal after heating to 600°C (left) and the destruction of the zone when heating to 650°C (right). Metal patterns printed on a III-V semiconductor material can control the appearance and positions of droplets arising on its surface when heated. The result is a significant step forward for controlled device fabrication on a chip. Semiconductor

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/controllable-droplets-carry-promise-self-assembled-nanodevices - 2025-08-29

The prizes for best posters were awarded to Ruby Davtyan, Meena Raveesh and Mattias Ammitzböll. Photo: Evelina Lindén Nanowires, quantum dots, lasers, and much more. At the Synergy Day 2023, researchers from Lund Laser Centre and NanoLund together with MAX IV Laboratory met under the umbrella of Lund university’s profile area Light & Materials for an entire day, doing what we all love most: marvel

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/success-light-materials-synergy-day - 2025-08-29

The NanoLund annual student retreat is a popular event, gathering students, PhD students, and postdocs from NanoLund. Photo: Nils Gustafsson This year’s NanoLund Student and Postdoc retreat took place in Smygehamn with almost 70 participants. They used the opportunity to dive into the topics “Work-Life-Balance” and “Communication” during the two days at the idyllic south coast of Skåne. In early O

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/balancing-work-and-life-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat - 2025-08-29

Illustration of phage virus injecting its DNA into a cell. Image: Alex Evilevitch and Ting Liu Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-08-29

Photo by Flockine/Pixabay Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to “clean up” their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Wh

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-08-29

“We were surprised by how nicely the symmetry break of the pillars on the micrometer scale was reflected in the overall behavior of the waves on the millimeter scale,” says Jonas Tegenfeldt. First, they discovered how DNA can move in wavelike patterns on the millimeter scale in microfluidics devices – now they also have found a way of controlling the behaviour. Four researchers connected to NanoLu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-08-29

Each year, the magazine Ny Teknik elects Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative and promising young technology companies. Photo: Tobias Ohls NanoLund wants to congratulate NanoLund spin-off companies Alix Labs and NordAmps for making it to the magazine NyTeknik’s list of Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative, and promising young technology companies in 2023. For the sixteenth year in a row, the magazine Ny

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-nanolund-spin-companies-prestigious-listing - 2025-08-29

Professor Emeritus Lars Samuelson is now a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science. Professor Lars Samuelson has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS. Professor Lars Samuelson has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, in the class of Mathematics and Physics. “This is highly recognised in China, and internationally, an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-new-member-science-academy-china - 2025-08-29

90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. WISE

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-08-29

Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas was about to publish

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-08-29

NanoLund Deputy Director Maria Messing and her research group at Lunds University use spark discharge generation to obtain more efficient and environmentally friendly processes in the manufacture of nano-sized catalysts. Roughly 80 percent of all chemical products are manufactured using catalysts. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has made a movie with one of their Future Researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sparks-can-provide-more-environmentally-friendly-nano-catalysts - 2025-08-29

For twenty years now, LTH has educated students in the programme Master of Science in Engineering Nanoscience. It’s an education that blurs the boundaries between traditional fields of knowledge such as biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, and electronics. “It felt very solemn and nice to celebrate 20 years. The students I talked to thought it was inspiring to hear alumni talk about the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2025-08-29

“You need to build deep knowledge and do academic research in parallel with industrial development. Programs like WISE provide this opportunity,” says Tetra Pak’s Eva Gustavsson. Photo: Gunnar Menander Tetra Pak and Lund University join forces in a shared research project as part of WISE (The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability), the largest-ever research initiative in mater

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-08-29

Konstantin Nestmann was aiming for Lund for his postdoc: “Here they do a lot of experiments with quantum dots, while I work theoretically with quantum dots, so it felt like a very good match.” Photo: Kennet Ruona How do you succeed with your Marie Curie application? Konstantin Nestmann, a postdoc at NanoLund, scored 100 out of 100 points. The magazine Curie, published by the Swedish Research Counc

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Semiconductors – the “brains” behind electronic products and systems. Whether mobile phones, automotive, energy, home appliances, or artificial intelligence, these components (“chips”) play a key role. At the same time, Asian countries account for more than half of the world’s semiconductor chip production. Swedish semiconductor capability is now to be strengthened by Lund University together with

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strengthening-swedish-semiconductor-capability - 2025-08-29

Heiner Linke and Vanya Darakchieva, our new Wallenberg Scholars, along with Anne L'Huillier, Stephanie Reimann, and Kimberly Dick Thelander. Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that supports excellent basic research, primarily in medic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-wallenberg-scholars - 2025-08-29