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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 atom were the size of a Lego piece, lying in a hand, the hand would be the size of planet Earth. “Big discoveries are made when we realize something fundamental and yet surprising about nature”, she says. Kimberly Dick T

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/creating-completely-new-materials-atoms - 2025-12-17

Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations and chemical industry. An alloy of nickel, chromium, and molybdenum is often used. However, a new study shows that this alloy rusts in a previously unknown way. Buildings, modes of transport, artworks, and music instruments – we encounter metallic materials almost everywhere in societ

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-deficiencies-corrosion-resistant-metallic-materials - 2025-12-17

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 Actuated Bonding”. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their careers and has scientific excellence as its sole selection criterion. The researchers and their projects have been ranked t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolundian-filip-lenrick - 2025-12-17

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 the already existing center C3NiT. New research environments for sustainable and digital transformation are emerging. In the competence centers, universities and companies will jointly conduct excellent research and educat

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-involved-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-12-17

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 into account”, says Professor Christelle Prinz, one of the researchers behind the study. In a collaboration with the National Research Center for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, led by Ulla Vogel, and the Finnish Inst

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/study-shows-importance-taking-nanosafety-account - 2025-12-17

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 Night” (Kulturnatten). This year NanoLund participated again in a joint effort with the Physics Department at Lund University in the annual Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) event in Lund. Together with other Divisions, Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/all-over-place-nanolund-participated-culture-night - 2025-12-17

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. Lund University can award silver and gold medals to people who have made important contributions to either Lund University or society at large. The first time the gold medal was awarded was in 1967 when it was awarded to Tetra Pak

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-gold-medal-anne-lhuillier - 2025-12-17

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 Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. Today, we celebrate the first Lund University Nobel Laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/and-nobel-prize-now-announced - 2025-12-17

“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 Materials Science for Sustainability, WISE, thereby celebrates its very first scientific publication – making it to the cover of Solar RRL. The current energy crisis underlines the urgent need to develop robust energy system

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/maning-liu-pioneers-wise-celebrates-its-first-scientific-publication - 2025-12-17

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 these questions drives Ville Maisi, Associate Professor of Solid States Physics at NanoLund. As long as he can remember he has been interested in electric circuits and physics. With the support of a new ERC Consolidator Gran

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-12-17

Spread the word: We are looking for an early career researcher with pioneering ideas in the field of optics of semi­conductor nanostructures. As an assistant professor, you will be embedded into the strategic research area NanoLund – Sweden’s largest research environment for nanosci­ence and nanotechnology – which together with Lund Laser Centre is part of the Lund University profile area Light an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tenure-track-position-assistant-professor-physics-semiconductor-optics - 2025-12-17

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 fellows receive the first Helmholtz High Impact Award. We are proud to learn that Eva Unger, an affiliated NanoLund member, has been honoured with the first Helmholtz High Impact Award! The Helmholtz High Impact honours c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/helmholtz-high-impact-award-nanolund-member-eva-unger - 2025-12-17

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 materials science for sustainability. The call for WISE Summer School 2024 aims to support the organisation of a one-week summer school. The summer school must be able to accommodate a minimum of 50 WISE graduate school members

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wise-funding-call-graduate-courses-and-summer-schools - 2025-12-17

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 forward for controlled device fabrication on a chip. Semiconductor materials are used in electronic devices because of their unique electrical properties. III-V semiconductor materials consist of elements from the third a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/controllable-droplets-carry-promise-self-assembled-nanodevices - 2025-12-17

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 Lund university’s profile area Light & Materials for an entire day, doing what we all love most: marveling at the worlds of science. When Light and Materials met on 10 October 2023, over 250 participants attended the sess

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/success-light-materials-synergy-day - 2025-12-17

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 “Communication” during the two days at the idyllic south coast of Skåne. In early October the yearly NanoLund Student and Postdoc retreat took place with almost 70 student members, PhD students, and Postdocs participating in

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/balancing-work-and-life-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat - 2025-12-17

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 temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid-like, which leads to its rapid injection into the cell,” says Alex Evilevitch who led the stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-12-17

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 nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to “clean up” their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Whether carelessly discarded

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-12-17

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 researchers connected to NanoLund have presented results that may be useful in several ways: to enhance or suppress the mixing of microfluidics, relevant for medicine and food industry as well as water treatment. In the jo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-12-17

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 young technology companies in 2023. For the sixteenth year in a row, the magazine Ny Teknik has chosen Sweden’s 33 best, most innovative, and promising young technology companies. Two of NanoLund’s spin-off companies hav

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-nanolund-spin-companies-prestigious-listing - 2025-12-17