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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...
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17 Oct 2023
Helmholtz High Impact Award to NanoLund member Eva Unger
Combining different disciplines and working together across centre boundaries to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time – the energy transition – Eva Unger and her team f...
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16 Oct 2023
Success for the Light & Materials Synergy Day
Nanowires, quantum dots, lasers, and much more. At the Synergy Day 2023, researchers from Lund Laser Centre and NanoLund together with MAX IV Laboratory met under the umbrella of L...
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13 Oct 2023
Tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Physics: semiconductor optics
Spread the word: We are looking for an early career researcher with pioneering ideas in the field of optics of semiconductor nanostructures.
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12 Oct 2023
Understanding the behaviour of light and matter – key to future technologies
If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to thes...
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5 Oct 2023
Maning Liu pioneers – WISE celebrates its first scientific publication
“Twisted or planar?” is the question that our brand new NanoLundian, Assistant Professor Maning Liu, and his colleagues explore in their new article. The Wallenberg Initiative Mate...
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3 Oct 2023
...and the Nobel Prize is now announced!
For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter, Professor Anne L’Huillier at Lund University is awarded the Nobel Pr...
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26 Sep 2023
Lund University’s gold medal to Anne L’Huillier
At Lund University’s annual ceremony in January, Professor Anne L'Huillier will receive Lund University’s gold medal for her outstanding contributions to the university.
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21 Sep 2023
All over the place – NanoLund participated in the “Culture Night”
Lectures, lab tours, Science Slam – and giving sneak peeks at MAX IV Laboratory Open Day. NanoLund and Solid State Physics were all over the place during the annual event ”Culture ...
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12 Sep 2023
Study shows the importance of taking nanosafety into account
Lung exposure to nanowires induces an inflammatory response and allergic response when tested on mice. “This emphasizes how important it is that we continue to take nanosafety int...
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7 Sep 2023
Researchers reveal deficiencies in “corrosion-resistant” metallic materials
Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations and chemical industry. An alloy of nickel, chromium, and molybden...
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5 Sep 2023
NanoLund involved in Vinnova’s new competence centers
Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund – adding up to th...
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5 Sep 2023
ERC Starting Grant to NanoLundian Filip Lenrick
Among the four scholars from Lund University who have received ERC Starting Grants is Filip Lenrick, a researcher in industrial production, for the project “Bulk-like Joints by Gas...
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29 Aug 2023
Creating completely new materials with atoms
NanoLundian Kimberly Dick is, for more than a decade, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and studies the building of new materials by working on an atom-scale. As put in the film: If an ...
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24 Aug 2023
Did you miss out on EuroNanoForum2023?
Were you among those who couldn’t make it to the conference EuroNanoForum2023? Don’t despair – we have gathered recordings of several sessions for you to watch.
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16 Aug 2023
Anne L’Huillier receives an ERC Proof of Concept Grant
As one of two researchers in Sweden, Anne L’Huillier will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the second call for 2023. A total of 66 researchers from 14 different countries w...