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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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8 Mar 2024
Wanted: centre coordinator for NanoLund
We are looking for a new centre coordinator for our strategic research area. You will coordinate, execute, and support the long-term planning and the day-to-day activities. We need...
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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’s (SSF) has made a movie with one of their Future Resear...
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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...
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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...