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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Armin Tavakoli receives the Sten von Friesen Prize. Photo: Johan Lindskoug Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772. Armin Tavakoli's research focuses on the complex phenomena that characterize the quantum world, where particles can affect each other at a distance and are governed by chance. His work explores both the fun

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A few minutes in the same room as an infected person is enough to catch the virus yourself. Here, aerosol researcher Malin Alsved collects virus aerosols from an infected person in a mobile laboratory during the pandemic. Photo: Jakob Löndahl The winter season virus has struck – and covid-19 is still part of everyday life. But unlike during the pandemic, we now know more about how the virus is spr

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NanoLund researchers publish exciting breakthroughs in Nature on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. Samuel Andersson, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Subhomoy Haldar, and Ville Maisi have unveiled groundbreaking work on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. By leveraging a Josephson junction-based design, this study demonstrates stron

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New investments will help to ensure that Sweden has a well-functioning chain of companies, research institutes and resources that can manufacture the materials and components needed in semiconductor technology. Photo: Johan Persson The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates SEK 12 million from the European Regional Development Fund to Lund Nano Lab (Myfab Lund

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Lundastudenten Emanuel Franzen har tilldelats 2024 års Midander-Lönnstipendium för sin uppsats "Rättvis rättegång på kostnadsdiet – Allmän domstol och frågan om ersättning för rättegångskostnader i förvaltningsmål”. Midander-Lönnstipendiet om 25 000 kronor delas varje år ut av Centrum för rättvisa till den student som har skrivit den bästa examensuppsatsen i juridik om individuella fri- och rättig

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Jur. kand Wilma Jonsson som tog examen från juristprogrammet i Lund vårterminen 2024 har tilldelats YAS (Young arbitrators Sweden) pris för bästa examensarbete i Sverige inom skiljedomsrätt. Uppsatsens titel är: Skiljeklausulens rättsliga gråzon - En undersökning av skiljebundenhetens omfattning i ljuset av NJA 2023 s. 437 ”Husqvarnas skiljeavtal” Prissumman är 15 000 SEK och delades ut under en c

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Martin Sunnqvist, professor i rättshistoria vid fakulteten, har av ordenskansler Svante Lindqvist utnämnts till att vara ordenshistoriograf vid Kungl. Maj:ts Orden fr.o.m. den 1 oktober 2024. Som ordenshistoriograf bistår han Kungl. Maj:ts Orden med juridisk och historisk expertis. Kungl. Maj:ts Orden är den organisation som handhar de kungliga riddarordnarna: Kungl. Serafimerorden, Kungl. Svärdso

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Lena Wahlberg, docent i allmän rättslära vid Juridiska fakulteten, har blivit förordnad som sakkunnig i Statens medicinsk-etiska råd (Smer). Förordnandet gäller från 1 januari 2025 tills vidare, dock längst till och med den 31 januari 2028. Statens medicinsk-etiska råd är ett organ som tillsatts av regeringen och som ska behandla medicinsk-etiska frågor ur ett övergripande samhällsperspektiv. I rå

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Lundastudenten Hannes Hultman tilldelas första pris i juridikklassen för sitt examensarbete i Konkurrensverkets uppsatstävling 2024. Titeln på examensarbetet är ”Processramen i upphandlingsmål – En analys av domstolens hantering av invändningar om kravbrister”.Prissumman är 20 000 SEK och delades ut under en ceremoni i Stockholm den 10 december. Handledare för Hannes uppsats har varit Vilhelm Pers

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