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6 Apr 2021

Double innovation prize to NanoLund

NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s innovation prize.

Microfluidic device used for computing with biomolecules; image courtesy of Biflow Systems GmbH

25 Mar 2021

Alternative Uses for Computing Devices using Nanoscale Biomolecules

Idea Competition: 5 000 Euro prize for the best idea for new application areas for biocomputation

16 Mar 2021

How to make smarter and more efficient electronics

We consequently need the development of electronics in order to face new challenges. Mattias Borg at Exploratory Nanotechnology explains how.

Laboratory facilities ready for the metal industry.

12 Mar 2021

X-rays and neutrons entering the metals and manufacturing industries

Researchers from NanoLund and Sustainable Production Initiative have joined forces together with Swedish metal and manufacturing industries.

Photo of Anne l’Huillier and the logotype of the Optical Society.

8 Mar 2021

Anne L’Huillier wins the Max Born Award

The Optical Society, OSA, awards professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics.

4 Mar 2021

Fluorescent nanodiamonds successfully injected into living cells

Elke Hebisch and Christelle Prinz from the strategic research area NanoLund have succeeded in injecting nanodiamonds directly into the cell interior.

Photo of Anders Mikkelsen, Maria Messing and Anneli Löfgren.

19 Jan 2021

New directors: Maria Messing and Anders Mikkelsen

Since January 1, NanoLund has a new director – Anders Mikkelsen, and a new deputy director – Maria Messing.

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 suprafluids. Illustration: Jonas Ahlstedt.

13 Jan 2021

Observing the emergence of a quantum phase transition shell by shell

Stephanie Reimann and Johannes Bjerlin publish an article in Nature about the few-body precursor of a quantum phase transition.

Picture of the Corona virus SARS-CoV-2.

7 Jan 2021

ERC grant for one-step Covid detection

European Research Council gives Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics, a grant to develop research results with innovation potential.

Droplets spreading from mouth (Photo: Alexios Matamis).

11 Dec 2020

Could singing spread Covid-19?

Aerosol researchers Jakob Löndahl and Malin Alsved at Lund University have studied the amount of particles we actually emit when we sing.

Collage of Hermann Grimeiss 2020 and with the Department of Solid State Physics in 1968.

10 Dec 2020

Medal to founder of Semiconductor Physics research in Lund

Hermann Grimmeiss, founder of the research field of Semiconductor Physics in Lund, has been awarded the Daniel Ernst Jablonski Medal.

Photo of Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist and Jens Schouenborg (Photo: Tove Smeds)

2 Dec 2020

Nanoparticles deliver drugs to the brain

Slowly releasing drugs locally in the brain, encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes.

Sara Linse, on the right, with her colleague Katja Bernfur. Photo: Johan Joelsson

25 Nov 2020

Sara Linse among the world’s most cited researchers

Sara Linse, principal investigator at NanoLund, is one of the world’s most influential researchers and most frequently cited by her peers.

X-ray Beam Induced Current measurements from the nanowire detector through the nano focus.

24 Nov 2020

Imaging the X-ray focus of NanoMAX with a single nanowire

The result is an unprecedented ultrahigh-resolution 3D image of the 88 nm diameter focus revealing fine details of the beam.

Photo of David Winge

12 Nov 2020

Mimicking the navigation of the insect brain

How come bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? ...

Photo of Lund University with ginkgo tree in autumn colors.

10 Nov 2020

The Lund Strategic Research Areas looking into the future

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 bounda...

An illustration of the molecular motor the project aims to build.

5 Nov 2020

ERC grant awarded to research project on protein motors

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 th...

Photo of research facility at MAX IV.

29 Oct 2020

Nano diffraction of ferroelastic domains at MAX IV

An international team of researchers – consisting of no less than four from NanoLund – have used nano focused X-rays at the NanoMAX beamline to image the complex structure of metal...

Photo of Anders Mikkelsen looking in to a vacuum chamber.

2 Oct 2020

New Director of NanoLund coming up

Anders Mikkelsen, professor at Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will be the next Director of NanoLund by the beginning of 2021, when Heiner Linke steps down from this role after eigh...

Camilla Modéer, Peter Gärdenfors, Ursula Hultkvist Bengtsson, Heiner Linke and Jan Westberg discussed the topic academia and industry at the NanoLund Annual Meeting. Photo: Kennet Ruona

29 Sep 2020

“Academia needs boosting the purpose perspective”

At the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2020, Camilla Modéer gave her honorary lecture as part of the program. We are happy to be able to show it to all of you who could not attend the even...