Published 9 March 2020 Science Village is being built in north-east Lund in the new city district Brunnshög. Picture by Science Village. The process of establishing a new Nanolab in the immediate vicinity of MAX IV and ESS is moving further as decided by the Board of LTH. The lab – Nanolab Science Village – will be the first step to establishing Lund University’s research operations in Science Vil

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-towards-new-nanolab-science-village - 2025-06-15

Published 23 March 2020 Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 11 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics, chemistry and biomedicine – for application. Initial deadline for applications: May 4, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:Materials scienceSmart n

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/11-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-06-15

Published 26 March 2020 There are many questions concerning the coronavirus and infection prevention that need to be answered as soon as possible. Jakob Löndahl, associate professor in aerosol technology at Lund University and faculty member of NanoLund is currently working to analyse air samples from patient rooms at Lund University hospital trying to detect the virus. Read the full news article

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/air-samples-coronavirus-patient-rooms-being-analysed - 2025-06-15

Published 2 April 2020 Oxana Klementieva and her colleagues in Lund and at Synchrotron SOLEIL in France have used a new method, optical photothermal spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study protein structures in neurons from mice affected by early stage Alzheimer’s disease. “We saw that the structure of the protein changes in different ways depending on where in the nerve cell it is. So far, there have been

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-06-15

Published 2 April 2020 Anne L’Huillier has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million for the project Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses. With the grant from ERC Anne and colleagues plan to use laser technology to create ultra-short light pulses to study the motion of electrons within atoms and molecules. Their work will provid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-awarded-anne-lhuillier - 2025-06-15

Published 8 April 2020 In a paper, recently published in Nature Communications with researchers from NanoLund and Lund Laser Centre, the ultrafast optical dynamics of porous gold nanosponges filled with zinkoxide was studied. This type of hybrid plasmon-emitter system could be useful for future optical computers as they are able to strongly amplify laser light. The study provides fundamental new i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/porous-gold-nanosponges-can-be-useful-future-computers - 2025-06-15

Published 20 April 2020 In a recent review article Donatas Zigmantas and colleagues from 16 universities and institutes in Europe, Canada, the US and Singapore critically assess previously proposed persistence and role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting. In the article they analyse the recent work on coherence in photosynthetic complexes, in particular, the results from femtos

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-quantum-effect-photosynthetic-light-harvesting - 2025-06-15

Published 3 May 2020 From the left, Lin Zhu, beamline scientist; Alexei Zakharov, MAXPEEM beamline manager; Axel Knutsson, Material Specialist at Alfa Laval; Oskar Darselius Berg, Alfa Laval. Photo by MAX IV. Through the advanced synchrotron radiation facility MAX IV, senior scientists and materials specialists from NanoLund are contributing to giving Alfa Laval detailed insights of the nanometer

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/protecting-nano-thin-oxide-layer-studied-alfa-laval - 2025-06-15

Published 14 May 2020 NanoLund has had an excellent 2019 – with an increasing amount of publications, more than 70 invited talks all over the world, 21 new graduated PhDs, and much more. Having been a Strategic Research Area of Sweden for a full decade now, NanoLund can look back on yet another year of success. 286 scientific publications, directly related to nanoscience, sets a new record. Of the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-annual-report-out - 2025-06-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 May 2020 Due to the Corona pandemic, scientists all over the world have begun focusing on every aspect possible of the virus. NanoLund poses no exception. To detect a virus or other infectious agents, medical and clinical laboratories usually employ the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This method, invented 1983, is widely us

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-scientists-mobilize-against-covid-19 - 2025-06-15

Published 3 July 2020 Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 6 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics and chemical physics – for application. Initial deadline for applications: August 25, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:    Energy saving LEDs based

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/6-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-06-15

Published 2 July 2020 The annual international nanoscience student conference INASCON is coming up. This year, it is held in Lund 11–13 August, broadcasted online, open for anyone interested in nanoscience: students, academics or businesses. INASCON is an annual, student-organized conference on nanoscience and technology, hosted in different countries since 2007 and originally to be hosted this ye

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-goes-digital-time-register - 2025-06-15

Published 3 July 2020 An exciting position as center coordinator at NanoLund is open for application. Are you a master of coordinating and managing? Do you have a strong interest in science, technological development and how it can be used in future society? Apply for the position as coordinator and get the chance to work at Sweden’s largest environment for nanoscience and nanotechnology! We are l

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-center-coordinator-nanolund - 2025-06-15

Published 12 August 2020 NanoLund is a very proud sponsor of INASCON 2020. The annual international nanoscience student conference opened yesterday with 1100 registered students from 70 countries around the world.   This year the conference is organized by a team of 35 Lund University undergraduate students. Due to the circumstances around COVID-19 the conference is broadcasted online and has attr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/inascon-2020-more-1000-registered-participants-all-over-world - 2025-06-15

Published 24 August 2020 Researchers from strategic research areas NanoLund and StemTherapy have developed a promising new method for delivering biomolecules into human blood stem cells using nanotechnology. With little to no detrimental effects on target cells, this novel approach has great potential for research and clinical applications. The discovery and development of therapeutic biomolecules

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanostraws-used-deliver-biomolecules-stem-cells - 2025-06-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 3 September 2020 Less damage is done to samples studied in X-ray microscopes – when rotating is not required. This technique will be developed by Pablo Villanueva Perez from NanoLund, ERC Starting Grant awardee 2020, and his team. NanoLund’s affiliated member Pablo Villanueva Perez from Synchrotron Radiation Physics has been awa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolund - 2025-06-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 29 September 2020 Camilla Modéer, Peter Gärdenfors, Ursula Hultkvist Bengtsson, Heiner Linke and Jan Westberg discussed the topic academia and industry at the NanoLund Annual Meeting. Photo: Kennet Ruona At the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2020, Camilla Modéer gave her honorary lecture as part of the program. We are happy to be able

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/academia-needs-boosting-purpose-perspective - 2025-06-15

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 2 October 2020 Anders Mikkelsen is, from January 2021, the new Director of NanoLund. Photo: Lund University Anders Mikkelsen, professor at Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will be the next Director of NanoLund by the beginning of 2021, when Heiner Linke steps down from this role after eight years of leadership. The announcement by

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-director-nanolund-coming - 2025-06-15

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 November 2020 The bee, unlike us humans, knows at every moment exactly how far from home it is, and in which direction the nest is located, says David Winge, post doc at the strategic research area NanoLund at Lund University. Photo: Evelina Lindén How come bees always find their way home, not to mention in a strai

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-06-15

Av Eva [dot] Persson [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se (Eva Persson) - publicerad 3 april 2023 På Pufendorfinstitutet arbetar forskare i så kallade Teman eller Advanced Study Groups kring aktuella vetenskapliga problem, som för att lösas kräver kunskap från flera discipliner i samverkan. Foto K. Ruona Nu är det klart! Vid styrelsemötet den 28 mars fattades beslut om Teman för perioden 2023 – 2024. Sammanl

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/fyra-nya-teman-startar-hosten-2023 - 2025-06-15