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26 Apr 2024
NanoLund and Lund Nano Lab has a leading role in the European Chips Act
NanoLund has together with Swedish partners at Linköping, Chalmers and KTH been invited to be part of a pilot line for Wide Bandgap materials. The local contribution is based on th...
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19 Apr 2024
The Spring Newsletter is here
If you want to read about the Prime Minister’s visit to Lund Nano Lab, our new Wallenberg Scholars, the WISE investment in Lund, the strengthening of Swedish semiconductor capabili...
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18 Apr 2024
Sarah McKibbin gets funding for Greening Lund Nano Lab
Optimise lab routines, minimise unnecessary consumption of lab consumables, recycle when possible, and improve user behaviour. That’s some of the improvements that can make the Lun...
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9 Apr 2024
Prime Minister visit to Lund Nano Lab
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson visited NanoLund for a tour of the nano lab, discussions on how to make science, technology, engineering, and maths education more popular, to learn ...
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26 Mar 2024
New Wallenberg Scholars
Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice W...
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21 Mar 2024
Strengthening Swedish semiconductor capability
Semiconductors – the “brains” behind electronic products and systems. Whether mobile phones, automotive, energy, home appliances, or artificial intelligence, these components (“chi...
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8 Mar 2024
He knows how to score maximum points on your EU application
How do you succeed with your Marie Curie application? Konstantin Nestmann, a postdoc at NanoLund, scored 100 out of 100 points. The magazine Curie, published by the Swedish Researc...
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29 Feb 2024
Exploring ways to reduce carbon footprint of packaging materials
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 research i...
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16 Feb 2024
“No longer just a buzzword in science fiction”
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 fiel...
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30 Jan 2024
Sparks can provide more environmentally friendly nano-catalysts
Roughly 80 percent of all chemical products are manufactured using catalysts. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has made a movie with one of their Future Research...
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22 Jan 2024
Snails illustrate how new materials can be built at the nano level
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 student on LTH's MSc in Engi...
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12 Jan 2024
“A tremendous impact on the transformation towards a sustainable future”
WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg...
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11 Jan 2024
Lars Samuelson new member of science academy in China
Professor Lars Samuelson has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS.
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19 Dec 2023
On the effect of symmetry on the DNA waves
First, they discovered how DNA can move in wavelike patterns on the millimeter scale in microfluidics devices – now they also have found a way of controlling the behaviour. Four re...
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14 Dec 2023
Two NanoLund spin-off companies on prestigious listing
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 innovative, and promising ...
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24 Nov 2023
Vacuum cleaner-effect in fungi can hold nanoplastics at bay
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 nanoplast...
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16 Nov 2023
Temperature increase triggers viral infection
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 tempe...
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7 Nov 2023
Balancing work and life at the NanoLund Student and Postdoc Retreat
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 “Com...
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25 Oct 2023
Controllable droplets carry promise for self-assembled nanodevices
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 a significant step f...
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20 Oct 2023
WISE funding call for graduate courses and summer schools
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 material...