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12 Dec 2025
AlixLabs scales up with €14M investment
What started as a discovery in Lund Nano Lab ten years ago is now turning into a sustainable path for the semiconductor industry. AlixLabs recently closed a €14.1 million Series A ...
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2 Dec 2025
Electrotherapy offers hope for glioblastoma treatment
Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumour could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund U...
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21 Nov 2025
Extending the life of building structures with fungus-based concrete solutions
Hanbang Zou is awarded SEK 600 000 from the Knut & Ragnvi Jacobsson Family Foundation. The money will be used for his research into how fungus-based concrete solutions can extend t...
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3 Nov 2025
Rainer Timm leads one of the new LINXS themes
“X-ray and neutron-based characterization of advanced semiconductors (Semiconductors)” is the name of one of the new Themes at LINXS, the advanced studies institute whose mission i...
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31 Oct 2025
Tiny light circuits mimic the brain – at a fraction of the energy cost
On-chip optical communication between tiny light-based components can make neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing much smaller and more energy-efficient. In this work, researchers...
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24 Oct 2025
Measuring the quantum state of photoelectrons
When light ejects electrons from atoms, understanding their full quantum nature goes beyond measuring momentum. Using quantum-state tomography, researchers reconstructed the comple...
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14 Oct 2025
Quantum in focus for this year’s Annual Meeting
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8 Oct 2025
Solar fuel conundrum nears a solution
Solar energy stored in the form of fuel is something scientists hope could partially replace fossil fuels in the future. Researchers may have solved a long-standing problem that ha...
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7 Oct 2025
AlixLabs wins the IC Taiwan Grand Challenge
The NanoLund spin-off company AlixLabs has been selected as a winning entrant from the third batch of the IC Taiwan Grand Challenge, an international competition that recognizes gr...
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30 Sep 2025
Christelle Prinz appointed to the Committee for Engineering Sciences
The Swedish Research Council’s board has appointed members to the Committee for Engineering Sciences for the period from 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2027. Their task is to manage...
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29 Sep 2025
Light and materials in focus for Lund University’s Science Village establishment
Work on Lund University’s establishment in Science Village has continued this year, but with a new focus. At the end of 2024, the boards of LTH and the Faculty of Science decided n...
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26 Sep 2025
Culture Night in the Year of Quantum Science and Technology
To promote global collaboration and address critical challenges in science and technology, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Sc...
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23 Sep 2025
Mattias Borg awarded for low-cost monitoring of methane emissions
One of the honorary awards in this year’s “Future Innovations Award 2025” went to NanoLundian Mattias Borg. He is awarded for his, Johannes Svensson's, and Johan Lundgren's major c...
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18 Sep 2025
Major investment in sustainable development – NanoLund recruits environmental research leader
New funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research will enable and reinforce research on how to increase the circularity and material recycling, enhance t...
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18 Sep 2025
Network grant for planning future excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies
Several NanoLund networks were chosen when the Swedish Research Council decided on the applications to be awarded network grants for planning future excellence clusters for groundb...
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11 Sep 2025
Reports from the 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Two NanoLundians attended the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Bayern, Germany, by the beautiful Bodensee. PhD student Julia Valderas and Postdoctoral fellow Ajeet...
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2 Sep 2025
“We’re trying to make materials that are more sustainable, economically as well as environmentally”
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 ...
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22 Aug 2025
“The best of both worlds” – Heiner Linke on why Swedish researchers should invest in innovation
Can innovation strengthen research? Former NanoLund director Heiner Linke, professor of nanophysics and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, achieved this by combining ...
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12 Aug 2025
Lund University’s international podcast visited NanoLund
How do you challenge the struggles with your PhD? How do you explain nanoscience to pupils in elementary school? And how do you maintain the balance between science and social acti...
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1 Jul 2025
New beamline at MAX IV to contribute to sustainable materials and green technology
MAX IV is awarded 200 million SEK from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and WISE to construct and establish a 3D imaging X-ray technology aimed at studying and developing advan...