Published 5 October 2023 Unlocking the full potential of harnessing solar power requires significant advancements in the process of clean energy generation, including how we collect, convert, and store it. Maning Liu and his colleagues are exploring this on a molecular scale. “Twisted or planar?” is the question that our brand new NanoLundian, Assistant Professor Maning Liu, and his colleagues exp

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/maning-liu-pioneers-wise-celebrates-its-first-scientific-publication - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 October 2023 “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 o

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-07-11

Published 13 October 2023 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 strategi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tenure-track-position-assistant-professor-physics-semiconductor-optics - 2025-07-11

Published 17 October 2023 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 firs

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/helmholtz-high-impact-award-nanolund-member-eva-unger - 2025-07-11

Published 20 October 2023 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 WIS

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wise-funding-call-graduate-courses-and-summer-schools - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Emeile Hilner) - published 25 October 2023 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/controllable-droplets-carry-promise-self-assembled-nanodevices - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 16 October 2023 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/success-light-materials-synergy-day - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Simon Wozny) - published 7 November 2023 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/balancing-work-and-life-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 16 November 2023 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 ri

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-07-11

Published 24 November 2023 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 i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 19 December 2023 “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 a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna-Karin Alm och Evelina Lindén) - published 14 December 2023 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 inno

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-nanolund-spin-companies-prestigious-listing - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 11 January 2024 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-new-member-science-academy-china - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 January 2024 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 materia

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 22 January 2024 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 stu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 30 January 2024 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 Fou

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sparks-can-provide-more-environmentally-friendly-nano-catalysts - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén and Sara Hängsel) - published 16 February 2024 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 nic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-longer-just-buzzword-science-fiction - 2025-07-11

Published 29 February 2024 “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 r

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/exploring-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint-packaging-materials - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Nilsson / Tidningen Curie) - published 8 March 2024 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 a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/he-knows-how-score-maximum-points-your-eu-application - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 21 March 2024 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. Sw

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strengthening-swedish-semiconductor-capability - 2025-07-11