By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 5 November 2020 Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 10 November 2020 Implementing the strategy will make Lund University stronger and more visible, says Heiner Linke. Photo: Kennet Ruona The complex challenges in our society require new solutions. We need high-quality, challenge-relevant research brought together in collective efforts over subject and sector boundaries, combined

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-strategic-research-areas-looking-future-0 - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Emelie Hilner) - published 24 November 2020 X-ray beam induced current measurements from the nanowire detector through the nano focus. A team of researchers from Lund University has imaged the beam focus at the hard X-ray nanoprobe NanoMAX using a single nanowire as the detector. The result is an unprecedented ultrahigh-resolution 3D image of the 88 nanome

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/imaging-x-ray-focus-nanomax-single-nanowire - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 November 2020 Sara Linse, on the right, with her colleague Katja Bernfur. Photo: Johan Joelsson Each year, the analysis company Clarivate Analytics identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. The list includes three names from Lu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-among-worlds-most-cited-researchers - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 2 December 2020 “There are a number of neurological conditions, such as chronic pain, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, whose mechanisms we want to understand”, says Jens Schouenborg. On his left: Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist. Photo: Tove Smeds A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been de

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-04-17

Published 10 December 2020 Hermann Grimmeiss became professor of Solid State Physics in Lund in 1965. The recessed photo is from 1968: Lars Ask, Bo Monemar, Mats-Ola Ottosson, Hermann Grimmeiss, Gunnar Björklund, Rune Olsson, Lars-Åke Larsson, Lars Andersson and Erland Ejder. Hermann Grimmeiss, who founded the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/medal-founder-semiconductor-physics-research-lund - 2025-04-17

Published 11 December 2020 Droplets spreading from mouth when singing. Photo: Alexios Matamis If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers Jakob Löndahl and Malin Alsved at Lund University. They have studied the am

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 13 January 2021 The upper part represents the experiment with a laser that shines on the 2D trap with atoms. In the lower part you can see how the atoms act when they pair, while the water represents their properties as superfluids. Illustration: Jonas Ahlstedt. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde / Evelina Lindén) - published 7 January 2021 Christelle Prinz’ project developing a test that quickly detects viruses in the body receives an ERC proof of concept – innovation money from the European Research Council. Picture: Mostphotos. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2025-04-17

Published 19 January 2021 Anders Mikkelsen, Maria Messing and Anneli Löfgren are the leadership troika for NanoLund from January 2021. Photo: Kennet Ruona Since January 1, NanoLund has a new director – Anders Mikkelsen, and a new deputy director – Maria Messing. “Organizing the work in NanoLund will be an interesting challenge, but we take it on with great enthusiasm and look forward to engaging w

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-directors-maria-messing-and-anders-mikkelsen - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Gerda Rentschler) - published 14 September 2020 Award Diploma to Lars Samuelson, for ”Creation and Application of Compound Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures and Contribution to Sweden-Japan Collaborations” ‘JSAP fellow’ is presented to individuals who have remarkably contributed to the progress of applied physics through the continuous activities in Jap

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lars-samuelson-receives-award-japan-society-applied-physics - 2025-04-17

Published 4 March 2021 As odd as it sounds, many scientists have attempted to place extremely small diamonds inside living cells. Why? Because nanodiamonds are consistently bright and can give us unique knowledge about the inner life of cells over a long time. Now physics researchers Elke Hebisch and Christelle Prinz from the strategic research area NanoLund have succeeded in injecting a large num

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/fluorescent-nanodiamonds-successfully-injected-living-cells - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 8 March 2021 Anne l’Huillier is the winner of the 2021 Max Born Award from the Optical Society (OSA). Photo: Magnus Bergström The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor o

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 16 March 2021 We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna-Karin Alm) - published 12 March 2021 Laboratory facilities within Lund University and Chalmers University will be used to prepare experiments using X-rays or neutrons. Picture from the PME-lab at Lund University. Courtesy of Jan-Eric Ståhl. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2025-04-17

By Gerda [dot] Rentschler [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se (Gerda Rentschler) - published 25 March 2021 Idea Competition: 5 000 Euro prize for the best idea for new application areas for biocomputation The Horizon 2020 project Bio4Comp, coordinated by Heiner Linke (NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University) announces an award for ideas to find applications for network-based computers using bio-

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/alternative-uses-computing-devices-using-nanoscale-biomolecules - 2025-04-17

Published 6 April 2021 Using nanotechnology, researchers can insert biomolecules into the blood stem cells from the umbilical cord, without damaging the cells. NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Magnus Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are named “Overcoming the shortage of blood stem cell donations wit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/double-innovation-prize-nanolund - 2025-04-17

Published 1 December 2015 Long-time NanoLund collaborator Dr. Heike Riel is one of three newly appointed honorary doctors by Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering in 2015/2016. She is the leader of the highly successful  Materials Integration & Nanoscale Devices (MIND) group at IBM Research in Zürich. Heike Riel has collaborated with NanoLund researchers in the EU-project Nanowire-Based One-Dim

https://www.nano.lu.se/heike-riel-appointed-honorary-doctor - 2025-04-17

Published 3 May 2021 “It is difficult to predict where plexcitons will contribute to the societal needs in the future. Perhaps through photocatalysis applications they will help to reach sustainable development goals as defined by the United Nations”, says Donatas Zigmantas. A research team has succeeded in uncovering the fundamental properties of plexcitons, which were previously shrouded in myst

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solved-nano-mystery-aiming-help-achieving-sustainability-goals - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna-Karin Alm) - published 26 May 2021 A magnified picture of a prototype of a micro-LED full-color display made by indium-gallium-nitride (InGaN) using 20x20 µm2 subpixels on an LTPS backplane. Courtesy of Glo AB. Leading California-based company within quantum dot light-emitting materials and technology, Nanosys, has acquired the NanoLund spin-off compa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-spin-company-glo-ab-acquired-nanosys - 2025-04-17