“This investment strengthens Lund University’s position as a leading research university, both nationally and internationally,” says Erik Renström Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Two positions in the NanoLund research environment are available within this major investmen

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-part-lund-universitys-largest-ever-recruitment-drive - 2025-08-25

The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-15) takes place in July at Malmö Live. Consumer electronics, radar and mobile antennas, quantum technology, lasers, and lighting. These are just some of the applications that can benefit from Nitride semiconductors – a research field that plays an important role in sustainable development. On July 6, the 15th International Conferenc

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Read all about our successful year – highlighting our research, grants, awards, and publications, paving the way to new frontiers and constantly growing, thanks to the hard work of our scientific community and all those who support us. We are fortunate to work in areas with extreme attention worldwide, as they are central to solving the many challenges facing our society. As a result, we collabora

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Yuhe Zhang, PhD at the Department of Physics. Photo: private/ Kennet Ruona Yuhe Zhang, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Physics, has been awarded the Werner Meyer-Ilse Award. She is honoured for her work on using deep learning for 2D, 3D and 4D X-ray images. The Werner Meyer-Ilse Prize is awarded every second year to young scientists for exceptional contributions to the advancement of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/werner-meyer-ilse-award-yuhe-zhang - 2025-08-25

Grazing zooplankton, daphnia, which are an important source of food for fish, were found to be particularly vulnerable (Photo: Erik Selander/Lund University) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have studied how nanoplastic affects aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. The results are surprising and the researchers are the first to show that some species are being wiped out, while others – su

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/grazing-zooplankton-severely-impacted-nanoplastic-particles - 2025-08-25

“I can do it for a certain amount of time, for a few years. It’s important to inspire the new generation and also to make science a bit more accessible to everyone,” says Anne L’Huillier about the massive attention she’s been given as a Nobel laureate. A year has passed since Anne L’Huillier became Lund University’s first Nobel laureate. Since then, she has tried to use the attention to revive int

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Photo: Emelie Hilner Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) is a very popular annual event in Lund that attracts thousands of people to enjoy concerts, science-shows, arts and good food. This time NanoLund again took part in joint efforts with the Physics Department and MAX IV Laboratory to show and explain what our science is all about. One of the key events this year was a popular physics lecture by our

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“This grant allows our team to become a key player in the global race to find solutions for the creation of future smart energy grids and the electrification of transportation,” says Vanya Darakchieva. Photo: Jonas Tegenfeldt Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Solid State Physics, receives SEK 26 million over five years from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for the project “Transforming ceram

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Hierarchy of GME-dimension states. States with 𝒟GME = 1 are biseparable. Any state with 𝒟GME > 1 is GME. States with 𝒟GME = d cannot be simulated by any lower-dimensional entanglement. Cobucci, G., & Tavakoli, A, Science Advances. In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers Gabriele Cobucci and Armin Tavakoli present a new method to analyze a complex form of quantum entanglement i

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Almost all the participants of the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2024 in one spot. Photo: Evelina Lindén Nano and New Frontiers in Computing – technologies and insights in biology, materials, light and quantum. That was the inspiring and captivating theme of this year’s edition of the NanoLund Annual Meeting. With a head start from inside an insect’s brain, brought to us by Stanley Heinze, we were given

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Lund University allocates special funds to research infrastructures of strategic importance – and Lund Nano Lab is one of them. The Vice-Chancellor has designated three of the university’s major research infrastructures as University Core Facilities. The designation signals that these research infrastructures are of high strategic importance for the entire university. “We are very happy that Lund

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Enjoying the nice autumn weather, the 80 post docs, Ph D-students and student members at NanoLund had a good retreat at Sundsgården. Students, PhDs and postdocs at NanoLund are welcome to join a retreat to bring together junior researchers from all parts of NanoLund. The retreat is arranged every year for all NanoLund PhDs, postdocs, and student members. As part of the core values of NanoLund – op

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Bioelectrodes created in the brain of a chicken embryo using light (left), which provides control of the structure and the previous method without light (right). Figure: Fredrik Ek et al. Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancing rapidly. However, bioelectronic treatment is not without complications. Researchers

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Illustration from the article Acoustic Enrichment of Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells and Clusters from Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients, in Anal. Chem. 2024, 96, 18, 6914–6921. Per Augustsson, a researcher in biomedical engineering, is one of five Lund University researchers receiving the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. He is developing new devices to separate cells and nanoparticles

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-augustsson - 2025-08-25

NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen thanks the staff for all your contributions. The end of 2024 is getting closer, and in the midst of the final hectic attempt to finish all projects and ideas, we can look back at the year. We sadly had to say goodbye to our deputy director Maria Messing, who took a new leadership position at Chalmers. After a thorough process, the recruiting group found a new top

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wrapping-year - 2025-08-25

NanoLund researchers engage in three of the competence centres invested in by Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova. It has been a productive year for all of them – below, you can read their reports from 2024. C3NiT, managed by Vanya Darakchieva has for the second time arranged its yearly meeting in Lund with great success together with industrial and academic partners. The updates on the six projec

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strong-year-our-vinnova-competence-centres - 2025-08-25

The Horizon Europe programme InsectNeuroNano had an exciting encounter with business students participating in a case competition to explore how they might be able to commercialize the ideas and conclusions from the project. Photo: Ola Mattisson The long-term vision of the InsectNeuroNano project is a novel on-chip hybrid nanostructure platform for energy-efficient, fast artificial neural networks

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/business-students-presented-ideas-commercializing-insectneuronano-bee-chip - 2025-08-25

Martin Leijnse is the new Deputy Director of NanoLund, and our new chair is Margaret McNamee. We welcome Martin Leijnse, a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, as our new Deputy Director of NanoLund. He succeeds Maria Messing, who is currently at Chalmers. After Heiner Linke, the NanoLund Board has a new chair: Margaret McNamee, a Professor of Fire Safety Engineering and Deputy Dean of LTH.Marti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-deputy-director-and-new-chair-board - 2025-08-25

Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires in a ligand-free way. The yield is dramatically improved using a controlled nitrogen flow, and in situ microscopy is used to visualize the growth dynamics. Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires ligand-free. A controlled nitrogen flow dramatic

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Using superconducting semiconductor hybrids, Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Thelander, and Ville Maisi has demonstrated a continuous microwave photon detection using superconducting semiconductor hybrids. Microwave Photons contain about five orders of magnitude lower energy than a visible photon. Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, An

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/continuous-microwave-photon-counting-semiconductor-superconductor-hybrids - 2025-08-25