June 11-14 2018 are the dates of the Marcus Wallenberg symposium Tailored surfaces in operando conditions. The meeting will take place in Ystad, Sweden, and is devoted to recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The aim of the workshop is to create a breeding ground for ideas by ensuring meetings between researchers, fro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/conference-tailored-surfaces-operando-conditions - 2025-08-21

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has announced their Materials for Energy (EM16) grants. We congratulate NanoLund member Kenneth Wärnmark, who is coordinator for the projects "Iron-Based Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Processes" which is granted 34,9 MSEK. Another project on "Low-defect-density III-Nitrides for green power electronics" led by Vanya Darkchieva from Linköping Uni

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/materials-energy-grants - 2025-08-21

Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant Fellows for 2017 were announced and Jesper Wallentin is one of the three new fellows. The grant is given for  one year at a time and awards the amount applied for from the ERC up to 1,5 M EUR over five years.Jesper will develop ultra-high resolution X-ray detectors based on semiconductor nanowires, whose spatial resolution will be radically better than the curre

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-starting-grant-fellowship - 2025-08-21

Lund Nano Lab is one of the six laboratories at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), which is part of LTH’s Open Door project. The LTH Open Door initiative, officially inagurated on January 18, 2018, aims at providing access to LTH’s state-of-the-art equipment, facilities and networks for start-ups or established companies in Skåne. The project will help with innovation processes, make it easier to f

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-member-lths-open-door-initiative - 2025-08-21

Chris Palmstrøm from UC Santa Barbara has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University.Chris Palmstrøm's research group focuses on heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devices. Chris had been a valuable returning guest and advisor to nanoscience researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chris-palmstrom-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-08-21

As part of cooperation between Scandinavian cleanrooms, Lund Nano Lab (LNL) organised a joint meeting of experts in Dry Etching and Thin Films on November 16-17, 2017. Such meetings arranges on a regular basis within the Nordic Nanolab Expert Network (NNEN) – a Scandinavia-wide discussion platform of experts and lab staff in dry etching, lithography, thin films, characterisation and facility opera

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nnen-meeting-dry-etch-and-thin-films-lund-nano-lab - 2025-08-21

Anne Borg from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science at Lund University.Anne Borg is a physicist focusing om materials science and surface science and she has a long history of collaborating with Lund University and researching at MAX-lab. She is a former member of the NanoLund External Advisory Council and she currently chai

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-borg-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-08-21

On November 15-16, 2017 Lund Nano Lab (LNL) hosted a second joint LNL-Plasma-Therm Plasma Processing workshop. The Workshop focused on the fundamentals of plasma reactors, mechanisms of etching and deposition as applied to nanofabrication and covered state-of-the-art etching and deposition techniques. Dr. David Lishan (Plasma-Therm, USA) gave an overview of the modern plasma technologies for compo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plasma-processing-workshop-lund-nano-lab - 2025-08-21

Developments in quantum technology and artificial intelligence, AI, are predicted to transform research, as well as business and society as a whole. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awarding a total of SEK 1.6 billion over ten years to these promising fields, in two separate research projects involving several Swedish higher education institutions. Together with other funding, the budge

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/billions-be-invested-ai-and-quantum-technology - 2025-08-21

NanoLund Affiliated Member Anne L’Huillier has been involved in a study where researchers have clocked how long it takes for an electron to be emitted from an atom. The result is 0.000 000 000 000 000 02 seconds, or 20 billionths of a billionth of a second. The researchers’ stopwatch consists of extremely short laser pulses. Hopefully, the results will help to provide new insights into some of the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unbelievable-speed-electron-emission-atom - 2025-08-21

A group of Lund University researchers including Peter Schurtenberger have published a paper demonstrating that they can use oppositely charged thermoresponsive particles with complementary shapes, such as spherical and bowl-shaped particles, to implement an externally controllable lock-and-key self-assembly mechanism. The goal is to have the particles self-organize in order to make complex struct

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-can-control-lock-and-key-self-assembly-mechanism - 2025-08-21

An interdisciplinary environmental project between the Lund based theater Sagohuset and the division of Chemistry and Structural Biology at Lund University has resulted in two plays and an exhibition which shows the effects of plastic in the oceans. Tommy Cedervall can answer questions about the project. Read more on the LU event page (in Swedish), in LUM (in Swedish), Skånska Dagbladet (in Swedis

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/play-nanoplastic-aquatic-environments - 2025-08-21

Tommy Nylander is awarded the Norblad-Ekstrand medal by the Swedish Chemical Society. In connection with this he will give a talk entitled ”Reflections on the biointerface: Structure, interactions and processes" on October 19 at 18.00 at the Department of Chemistry. Read more here.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/norblad-ekstrand-medal-tommy-nylander - 2025-08-21

A team of NanoLund scientists led by Kimberly Dick Thelander has been awarded 34,2 MSEK over five years for the project "Controlled atomic scale 3D ordering for exotic electronic phases". The grant was awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to projects of the highest international level, and potentially leading to future scientific breakthroughs. The grants give the researchers the op

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-grant-kimberly-dick-thelander - 2025-08-21

A new study by NanoLund researchers shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains. The plastic can cause brain damage, which is the likely cause of behavioural disorders observed in the fish.“Our study is the first to show that nanosized plastic particles can accumulate in fish brains”, says Tommy Cedervall, a chemistry researcher at Lund University.The Lund University resear

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-nanoparticles-affects-fish-brains - 2025-08-21

European Workshop on Label Free Particle Sorting will take place at Medicon Village in Lund, 5-6 September 2017. The workshop aim to utilise the comprehensive network and solid experience to put to use several microfluidics technologies to address important biomedical problems.For details please contact Prof Jonas Tegenfeldt (jonas [dot] tegenfeldt [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se)Read more on the LAPA

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/european-workshop-label-free-particle-sorting-5-6-september - 2025-08-21

Peter Jönsson has been granted an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 M Euro for 5 years. The project named SELFOR explores how an immune response starts at a molecular level, and how our immune system can separate between “self” and “foreign” molecules.Read the Lund University press release (in Swedish), the announcement from the Swedish Science Foundation (in Swedish and in English) and more on the homepa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-peter-jonsson - 2025-08-21

Rapidus reports that Google Inc has invested 120 MSEK in Glo in a funding round during the summer. Glo is developing RGB direct-emitting display panels with better contrast and lower power consumption than LCD screens while yielding higher overall brightness than OLED.In total Glo has attracted about 1200 MSEK since the start in 2008 when it spun out from research at NanoLund (then called the Nano

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/google-invests-glos-microled-technology - 2025-08-21

Two new nanofabrication facilities are scheduled to be built in Science Village Scandinavia neighboring MaxIV and ESS. One laboratory will be a bigger version of the Lund University run Lund NanoLab which is dedicated to education and blue sky research. The other is the ProNano facility which will belong to the RISE research Institute and house pilot production facilities.Read more in Sydsvenskan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-new-nanolaboratories-be-built - 2025-08-21

NanoLund spin out Sol Voltaics secured 21 million US dollar in a funding round over the summer. The new finance will be used to accelerate commercialization of its highly anticipated solar efficiency boosting technology, SolFilm™ which promises to increase conventional solar panel efficiencies by up to 50%“This latest round of finance gives us the critical capital required to commercialize our eff

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/21-million-dollar-funding-sol-voltaics - 2025-08-21