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Published 23 March 2017 Professor Kenneth Wärnmark at the Department of Chemistry and active in NanoLund has been awarded the 2017 Edlund Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for his cutting-edge research on iron-based dyes in solar cells.Read more on the homepage of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (in Swedish).
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemist-receives-prize-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2025-04-29
Published 15 March 2017 Today’s computers use vast amounts of electric power – so much so that the inability to cool the processors actually hampers the development of more powerful computers. In addition, they cannot do two things at the same time, which affects the processing speed needed.The EU is now funding a large project that aims to develop technology for an extremely powerful computer bas
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/parallel-network-based-biocomputation - 2025-04-29
Published 15 March 2017 Researchers of NanoLund, in collaboration with the group of Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, have published an article in Nano Letters showing that nanowires can be imaged using super resolution optical microscopy. In the article, GaInP nanowires were imaged using ground state depletion at a five fold resolution enhancement com
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-imaging-super-resolution-optical-microscopy - 2025-04-29
Published 3 April 2017 The Swedish Research Council has decided to support a project lead by Jonas Tegenfeldt on diagnosing disease such as sleeping sickness and malaria in remote locations with the help of a nanotechnology based device coupled to a mobile phone camera.The method will enable quick and precise diagnosis with very minuscule amounts of sample and will first be tested in Ghana and Tan
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mobile-phone-microscope-diagnostics - 2025-04-29
Published 1 March 2017 As part of Lund University Science Week, NanoLund will host the event Nanotechnology for the Future. This day we will open up the lab and give guided tours, telling the story of the role that nanotechnology plays in current and future challenges. Come evening time, we welcome you to lectures and debates about nanotechnology in society. Welcome to k-space (Q179) at the Depart
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-future-drop-march-7th - 2025-04-29
Published 26 June 2017 In a February 2017 paper in Nanotechnology NanoLund researchers reports the results of simulations and experiments investigating the effect of the nanowire doping profile on photodetection characteristics in InP nanowire array photodetectors, emphasizing the role of bias dependence.The study was done by V Jain, M Heurlin, M Karimi, L Hussain, M Aghaeipour, A Nowzari, A Berg,
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/bias-affects-nanowire-photodetector-studies - 2025-04-29
Published 2 March 2017 February 23 the Swedish Research Council announced funding of Research Environments within natural and engineering sciences for the 2016 call. NanoLund researcher Jens Schouenborg was awarded 24MSEK over six years for his project with the Swedish title: "Utveckling av implanterbar och vävnadsvänlig optoelektronisk teknik för att monitorera och kommunicera med den medvetna hj
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-funding - 2025-04-29
Published 16 May 2017 At the General Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 14 December, Tönu Pullerits was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry.More information on the Academy's homepage in Swedish and English.
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tonu-pullerits-elected-academy - 2025-04-29
Published 7 February 2017 NanoLund spin out company Hexagem, founded in 2015, has raised 2 MSEK from Almi Invest, Rapidus reports.GaN, which is a high bandgap semiconductor, is the main contender for next-generation power electronics and mobile platforms, including 5G. Today, GaN technology is hampered by challenges in wafer fabrication and material quality.Read more about Hexagem (in English) and
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/funding-hexagem - 2025-04-29
Published 2 February 2017 The NanoLund spin out company Sol Voltaics was named "Rapidus Company of the Year" at a ceremony in Malmö on January 24 2017. Organized by Swedish technology and business news publisher Rapidus, the award encompasses all business categories in the Öresund region of Sweden.The recipient of "Company of the Year" is recognized as having the greatest potential for future succ
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sol-voltaics-wins-rapidus-company-year-2016 - 2025-04-29
Published 3 January 2017 NANOWIRE WEEK will take place at the end of May 2017 in Lund, Sweden. Nanowire Week is the merger of two long-standing workshops, NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop, and is the foremost event worldwide for all areas of nanowire research. The aim of Nanowire Week is to promote lively discussion on all areas of nanowire research from growth to applications.For more i
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-week-2017 - 2025-04-29
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 27 January 2025 The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United N
By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 3 February 2025 To find sustainable solutions for employees in industries facing decline, I think you need to understand what it is about the job that is important to their identity, Says Felix Schultz. A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities sh
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/understanding-identity-climate-transition - 2025-04-29
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 March 2025 The conference was opened and closed by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, a representative of the Resguardo Indígena, Condagua, Putumayo, Colombia. Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-04-29
By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 21 March 2025 Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science at Lund University in June 2024. Kimberly Nicholas was appointed professor in Sustainability Science in June 2024. After more than 15 years at Lund University, her commitment to stopping climate change is stronger than ever. “W
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-kimberly-nicholas-mission-combat-climate-change - 2025-04-29
By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 27 March 2025 Kurdish migrant farmworker hoeing sugarbeet fields in Central Turkey. Photo by: Sinem Kavak A new LUCSUS study sheds light on the challenging lives of seasonal migrant farmworkers in Turkey. The workers, who are predominantly Kurds, Arabs, and Syrian refugees, face multiple layers of marginaliz
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/exploited-and-invisible-harsh-realities-seasonal-migrant-farmworkers-turkey - 2025-04-29
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 April 2025 LUCSUS is participating in several events during this year's Sustainability Week! It is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. Sustainability Week is an important occasion for LUCSUS as a centre to engage with our local community in Lund, and share research f
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week-2025 - 2025-04-29
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 April 2025 Lina Lefstad is a PhD student at LUCSUS. Her research objective is to contribute to equity and justice in socio-ecological transformations. Photo: Sara Håkansson. Congratulations Lina Lefstad, PhD student at LUCSUS, for receiving an honorable Mention in the The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award - for her research
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lina-lefstad-receives-honourable-mention-lund-university-agenda-2030-award - 2025-04-29
By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 22 April 2025 LUCSUS researchers Elina Andersson, Lennart Olsson and Stefan Schüller participated in the PERENNIAL annual project meeting at the Land Institute in Kansas, USA. LUCSUS research is global in scope and covers many topics and countries. Last year, in 2024, researchers conducted field work in places such as India, N
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/read-about-lucsus-fieldwork-2024 - 2025-04-29
Published 14 February 2017 - I’m expecting interesting and exciting entries, says Ann Åkerman, LUCSUS.On Thursday (16h February), Ann Åkerman and Chad Boda, also from LUCSUS, will travel to the high school ProCivitas in Helsingborg to nominate best student entry for a project called Sustainable Innovations. As part of the project, which runs throughout the spring, first year students have to come
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-will-win-best-innovation-lucsus-procivitas - 2025-04-29
