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LTH (the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University) now launches profile areas to be able to stronger respond to societal challenges. We are happy to announce that ”Nanoscience and Semiconductor Technology” is among the first ones. LTH’s profile areas are intended to be horizontal platforms for research, collaboration, and education and a way to develop LTH’s research and make it visible and concr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanoscience-and-semiconductor-technology-becomes-lth-profile-area - 2025-10-19

A research group at Lund University has succeeded in creating a hydrogen-producing system using an iron complex as a light-absorbing dye. The new discovery could be an important piece of the puzzle for large-scale, environmentally friendly hydrogen production in the future. Hydrogen is a highly efficient energy carrier that can be used to transport, store and provide energy. The gas, which consist

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-step-towards-large-scale-fossil-free-hydrogen-production - 2025-10-19

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in growing vertically aligned, free-standing metal halide perovskite (MHP) nanowires. This scalable, self-aligned, and lithography-free approach to achieving high-quality free-standing MHP nanowires arrays and heterostructures, offers new possibilities for optoelectronic applications such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and X-ray detectors. “In

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/free-standing-metal-halide-perovskite-nanowires-one-step-closer-new-clean-energy - 2025-10-19

In the Annual Report for 2021 which just arrived from the print shop, you can see our new stats and read about some of the highlights from last year. Read the full report online or info [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (subject: NanoLund%20Annual%20Report%202021) (contact us) to get your paper copy. NanoLund annual report 2021 (pdf, 2.4 MB)

https://www.nano.lu.se/annualreport2021 - 2025-10-19

We all know that when it burns, it smokes. But what do we really know about the contents of that smoke and how it is affected by different fire processes? Not only that, but how do these smoke particles affect the emergency personnel who are first on the scene? Researchers at NanoLund and LTH, in a unique experiment with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), have conducted measurements to

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unique-project-studies-fire-smoke-detail - 2025-10-19

Camilla Modéer, chair of NanoLund's External Advisory Council and member of the NanoLund Board has been named honorary doctor by The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. Camilla has been an active participant for many years providing invaluable feedback on NanoLund engagement activities.Read more (in Swedish) on the homepage of Lund University.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/camilla-modeer-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-10-19

Thomas Laurell won a Distinguished Professor grant from the Swedish Research Council with the title “Ultrasonic standing wave fields and extracellular vesicles enable novel routes in medical diagnostics and biopharmaceutical production”, including support of 48 MSEK for ten years.Read more on the Swedish Research Council home page.Read a description of the research project (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/thomas-laurell-wins-distinguished-professor-grant - 2025-10-19

Out of a total of 9 Research Environment Grants within natural and engineering sciences from the Swedish Research Council, two went to NanoLund Researchers and their teams:“Multiscale biomechanics from molecules to cells in cancer” with Jonas Tegenfeldt as the PI and with Chris Madsen (at BioCARE), Pontus Nordenfelt and Vinay S Swaminathan (both at Clinical Sciences) as co-applicants.“Single molec

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-grants-hosted-nanolund - 2025-10-19

Åsa Haglund (at Chalmers University, NanoLund Affiliated Member) has won an ERC consolidator grant with the title: “UV-LASE: Out of the blue: membrane-based microcavity lasers from the blue to the ultraviolet wavelength regime”, including support on approximately 2 MEuro.Read the press release on the homepage of the European Research Council.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-asa-haglund - 2025-10-19

Alfred Larsson won best poster award at the winter school "Conventional and High-energy spectroscopies for inorganic, organic and bimolecular surfaces and interfaces" held 2-6 December 2019, Florence, Italy. The poster title was "Electrochemical Fabrication of Palladium Nanowires in Nanoporous Alumina Templates" and the prize was, in addition to the honour, 250£.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-alfred-larsson - 2025-10-19

Kimberly Dick Thelander has been named Wallenberg scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden’s leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out world-class research. Kimberly got a grant of 17.5 MSEK total which can be freely used for research for five years w

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-10-19

A hot topic among cancer researchers is vesicles, nanoparticles that flow in our veins in their billions and which have proven to hold information on the health status of the body. Now the hope is to be able to capture and decode the messages in the vesicles via a standard blood test. Thomas Laurell, professor of biomedical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, was recently appointed as a dis

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/early-detection-diseases-aided-bodys-own-nanoparticles - 2025-10-19

Take a leading role in Europe’s future center of Materials Science – apply for the position. At Lund University we are currently building Europe’s future center for materials research. It will combine, within a single campus area:• Excellent university-based materials research;• Lund Nano Lab, part of the national infrastructure for micro- and nanofabrication, Myfab;• MAX IV, the world’s most bril

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-professor-materials-science - 2025-10-19

Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of the project:   One of the seventeen sustainable development goals is concerned with sustainable cons

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2025-10-19

The process of establishing a new Nanolab in the immediate vicinity of MAX IV and ESS is moving further as decided by the Board of LTH. The lab – Nanolab Science Village – will be the first step to establishing Lund University’s research operations in Science Village. The location for Nanolab Science Village has been identified for a long time and the plan was approved by the City of Lund in 2018.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-towards-new-nanolab-science-village - 2025-10-19

Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 11 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics, chemistry and biomedicine – for application. Initial deadline for applications: May 4, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one or more of the following projects:Materials scienceSmart nanomaterials for green-t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/11-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2025-10-19

There are many questions concerning the coronavirus and infection prevention that need to be answered as soon as possible. Jakob Löndahl, associate professor in aerosol technology at Lund University and faculty member of NanoLund is currently working to analyse air samples from patient rooms at Lund University hospital trying to detect the virus. Read the full news article at Lund University websi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/air-samples-coronavirus-patient-rooms-being-analysed - 2025-10-19

Oxana Klementieva and her colleagues in Lund and at Synchrotron SOLEIL in France have used a new method, optical photothermal spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study protein structures in neurons from mice affected by early stage Alzheimer’s disease. “We saw that the structure of the protein changes in different ways depending on where in the nerve cell it is. So far, there have been no methods that can pr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-19

Anne L’Huillier has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million for the project Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses. With the grant from ERC Anne and colleagues plan to use laser technology to create ultra-short light pulses to study the motion of electrons within atoms and molecules. Their work will provide a new basic understan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-awarded-anne-lhuillier - 2025-10-19

In a paper, recently published in Nature Communications with researchers from NanoLund and Lund Laser Centre, the ultrafast optical dynamics of porous gold nanosponges filled with zinkoxide was studied. This type of hybrid plasmon-emitter system could be useful for future optical computers as they are able to strongly amplify laser light. The study provides fundamental new insights into how hybrid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/porous-gold-nanosponges-can-be-useful-future-computers - 2025-10-19