Published 4 March 2019 There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. NanoLund researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens to plastic in the ocean.“We have

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles - 2025-07-03

Published 18 December 2018 A product from the Lund University spin out AcouSort been selected as one of the top 10 innovations of 2018 by the life science journal The Scientist. AcouSort was founded in 2010 by, among others, NanoLund member Thomas Laurell. They use acoustofluidics to combine acoustics and microfluidics to separate and trap cells and particles in acoustic fields. It is their produc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/acousort-product-innovation-list - 2025-07-03

Published 10 December 2018 University of Halmstad has made a feature of NanoLund scientist Håkan Pettersson and research recently funded with 4 MSEK by the Swedish Research Council. Read the feature on Halmstad University's homepage (in Swedish) or in the pick-ups by expertsvar (in Swedish), ETN (in Swedish) or in Evertiq (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowires-iot - 2025-07-03

Published 6 December 2018 Lund University spin out Cellevate secured 5 million SEK in their third fund round. The new finance will be used for scaling up marketing and sales of their nanofibre based cell culture systems which mimics connective tissue and are used for medical research.Cellevate started as a student project during the course Project Nanoengineer in the Engineering Nanoscience progra

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/5-million-sek-funding-cellevate - 2025-07-03

Published 4 December 2018 The list of Global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 recently released by Clarivate Analytics recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. On the list are 62 researchers from Sweden of which 9 are from

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-highly-cited-nanolund-researchers-named-named-global-highly-cited-researchers-2018-list - 2025-07-03

Published 11 December 2018 Lars Samuelson had been awardes with Wilhelm Westrup's Prize by the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund for his excellent research on nanotechnology based upon materials science which has resulted in practical and commercial applications.Information about the prize can be found on the homepage of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (in English) and an article on the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wilhelm-westrups-prize-lars-samuelson - 2025-07-03

Published 18 January 2019 Image: Nils Rosemann. NanoLund researchers in collaboration with researchers from Uppsala University and University of Copenhagen have designed an iron complex which has shown to be luminescent and to have charge-transfer capabilities. This opens up for the possibility of replacing the expensive and rare metals such as ruthenium, osmium and iridium with iron in metal comp

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luminescent-iron-molecule-may-result-cheaper-solar-energy - 2025-07-03

Published 26 October 2018 The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has published the recipients of grants for instrument-, technology- or method development. From a total of 342 project applications 33 projects - of which two are by NanoLund researchers - were granted. Christelle Prinz and Eva Unger are funded for their projects on Nanowires for reprogramming stem cells (Nanonålar för att pro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/method-development-grants-c-prinz-and-e-unger - 2025-07-03

Published 11 October 2018  The front cover of the October issue of Nature Nanotechnology is decorated by an illustration from an article by NanoLund researchers who experimentally demonstrated a nanoscale heat engine in which only electrons at a specific energy flow between the reservoirs generating an electric current. The image on the cover is an artist’s impression of the nanoengine with the ho

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cover-nature-nanotechnology - 2025-07-03

Published 17 September 2018 At the 10th International Aerosol Conference in Saint Louis, USA in September 2018, NanoLund PhD students Malin Alsved and Louise Green from Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at Lund University won poster prizes - ”Overall top poster contest winner” - as they both finished in the top 5 after votation among the conference participants. Malins Alsved's poster was entitled

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-awards-m-alsved-and-l-gren - 2025-07-03

Published 3 September 2018 Irene Geijselaers won the best student poster award at the 34th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) in Montpellier, France this summer. The poster was entitled “Determination of the band offsets in Wurtzite-Zinc-blende InP nanowires by means of photoluminescence spectroscopy”.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-student-poster-award-irene-geijselaers - 2025-07-03

Published 24 August 2018 NanoLund scientists are successful in more than “just” nanosience: our warmest congratulations to our Board member and scientist Sara Snogerup Linse for winning gold over both the Middle and the Long distance in her age group in the  World Masters Orienteering Championships this summer. It’s great to see great science balanced by great sports!

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-wins-world-championships - 2025-07-03

Published 13 August 2018 A recent article in Nature Nanotechnology by NanoLund researchers show that a quantum dot-based heat engine can convert heat into work with an efficiency similar to that of similar machines with moving parts. As quantum dot-based engine has no moving parts it may be useful in applications such as nanotechnology and remote sensing. To Chemistry World, Heiner Linke explains:

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-dot-heat-engine-works-without-moving-parts - 2025-07-03

Published 2 July 2018 Calle Preger was awarded with ”Best Poster Award” at the conference Aerosol Technology in Bilbao for his poster “Using COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Predict Aerosol Deposition Spot Size of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP)”

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-calle-preger - 2025-07-03

Published 2 July 2018 NanoLund PhD student Mohammad Karimi has been selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technolog

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2025-07-03

Published 24 August 2018 NanoLund researcher Jesper Wallentin has been granted an ERC starting grant. His project will investigate whether semiconductor nanowires can be used as high resolution X-ray detectors. Wallentins group have some initial results that show that they can get a measurable electric current from single nanowires that are exposed to X-rays. Long term, the hope is that nanostruct

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 15 februari 2019 Urban Eriksson visar den enkla metoden. Som deltagare i Stjärnförsöket får man direkt feedback på inrapporterade data. Foto: Kennet Ruona Nu startar projektet Stjärnförsöket. Förhoppningen är att få in 100.000 observationer under det kommande året. Syftet är att väcka uppmärksamhet för det ständigt växande problemet med ljusföro­reningar. Projektets vetenskapliga ledare

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/stjarnskadning-pa-bred-front - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 19 februari 2019 Algprover. Foto: Karin Rengefors. Nu görs det satsningar på en rad nya forskningsprojekt om extremväder, i ljuset av den gångna sommarens extrema torka. Tre av dessa projekt handlar om extremvädrets inverkan på algblomningar, på humlesamhällen samt användningen av klimatmodeller för att undersöka effekter på politik, juridik och samhällsengagemang. Det statliga forsknin

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-pa-extremvader - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 4 mars 2019 Anders Johansen Anders Johansen, professor i astronomi vid Lunds universitet, tilldelas Göran Gustafssonpriset i fysik. Han får priset på drygt 5 miljoner kronor för sin banbrytande forskning om hur planeter bildas och utvecklas i närheten av unga stjärnor. Anders Johansen har rönt stora internationella framgångar med sina datorsimuleringar. Hans teorier förklarar hur det ka

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fint-pris-till-forskning-om-hur-planeter-bildas - 2025-07-03

Publicerad 4 mars 2019 Professor Carsten Peterson. Foto: Kennet Ruona. Forskare i teoretisk fysik vid Lunds universitet har tagit fram en algoritm för att spåra felmärkta data hos cancerpatienter. Insatsen gav dem förstapriset i en tävling som utlysts av den amerikanska myndigheten för livsmedel och läkemedel. Felmärkta kliniska och biologiska data är ett problem som bidrar till oanvändbara result

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-vann-tavling-med-konstgjord-intelligens - 2025-07-03