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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
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
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 - 2025-10-23
The Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings are annually hosting an event where young scientists – students, PhD candidates and post-docs – meet with Nobel Laureates. This year, NanoLundian Ofentse Makgae is one of the Swedish delegates participating. We are proud to announce that NanoLundian postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Ofentse Makgae is one of the 15 delegates from Swedish universities attending the
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-among-delegates-lindau-nobel-laureate-meetings - 2025-10-23
The risk of exposure to covid-19 virus particles increases the closer you are to a patient, the higher virus levels of the patient, and if ventilation is inadequate. Measurements of viruses in the hospital air by researchers at Lund University provide new knowledge on how best to adapt care to reduce the risk of infection. The international guidelines that currently exist in healthcare need revisi
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-virus-particles-air-can-reduce-spread-infection-hospitals - 2025-10-23
LTH (the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University) now launches profile areas to be able to stronger respond to societal challenges. We are happy to announce that ”Nanoscience and Semiconductor Technology” is among the first ones. LTH’s profile areas are intended to be horizontal platforms for research, collaboration, and education and a way to develop LTH’s research and make it visible and concr
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoscience-and-semiconductor-technology-becomes-lth-profile-area - 2025-10-23
A research group at Lund University has succeeded in creating a hydrogen-producing system using an iron complex as a light-absorbing dye. The new discovery could be an important piece of the puzzle for large-scale, environmentally friendly hydrogen production in the future. Hydrogen is a highly efficient energy carrier that can be used to transport, store and provide energy. The gas, which consist
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-step-towards-large-scale-fossil-free-hydrogen-production - 2025-10-23
