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“We’re trying to make materials that are more sustainable, economically as well as environmentally”

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 2 September 2025
Photo of people conducting scientific experiments.
The studies of existing materials are the first step on the way to designing completely new structures with new properties. Photo: KAW / Kennet Ruona

By studying how materials build themselves and by mimicking those processes, it is possible to create materials with new structures and properties. This is what Wallenberg Scholar Kimberly Dick Thelander, professor of materials science at Lund University, is doing.

At the nano scale, which is measured in billionths of a meter, phenomena occur that do not otherwise exist. Thelander and her colleagues are studying this process while it actually takes place. This is possible thanks to an electron microscope she has been using and developing since 2016.

“Everything we wanted to do when it was new is now possible. We use the microscope every day, and it is involved in about 70 percent of our research,” says Kimberly Dick Thelander in a recent interview with science journalist Lisa Kirsebom on the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation website. Read the entire interview with her below:

Nanoscale movies show how to build new materials (KAW website)

 

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