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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Published 21 November 2019 NanoLund Member Thomas Laurell works with Emma Niméus from the Medical Faculty on a method to separate cells from breastcancer tumor tissue according to size, density and mechanical properties. The goal is to learn more about the properties of different cell types and to use this knowledge for better and more targeted treatments.Read more in the Lund University article (

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Published 15 November 2019  Tommy Cedervall and fellow researchers are setting up a theatre play and a workshop in collaboration with the theatre Sagohuset in Lund, targeted  towards high school students.The play is a one man show by actor Torbjörn Lindberg, and was developed through dialog with the group of researchers. The play ends with a fact-based workshop where the researchers and the audien

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/theatre-nanoplastics - 2025-07-29

Published 11 November 2019 An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute to the development of more efficient solar cells using this iron-based solar cell.The sun is an unlimited source of pure an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/iron-based-solar-cells-track-becoming-more-efficient - 2025-07-29

Published 1 October 2019 Tommy Cedervall has been interviewed about nanoplastics on two different occations during September. WHO issued a report on an analysis of current research related to microplastics in drinking-water and Tommy was interviewed on the need for more research because we do not yet know how nanoplastics affect humans and nature.Later a research report from McGill University conc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tommy-cedervall-interviewed-nanoplastic - 2025-07-29

Published 11 October 2019 Martin Leijnse and three researchers from University of Copenhagen have received in total 10 million Euro for an ERC Synergy project called ‘Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems'. Here, nonlocal means that quasiparticles encode a quantum state that is hidden from any local measurement, while nonabelian means that exchange of quasiparticles chang

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Published 14 October 2019 In recent work involving NanoLund's Lars Samuelson, Hongqi Xu and Sören Jeppesen closely collaborating with a group at University of Tokyo/RIKEN in Japan and a group at Peking University in China describes how they have successfully realized a double nanowire Josephson junction device and discovered an enhancement of supercurrent arising from coherent splits of Cooper pai

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/double-nanowire-josephson-junction-device-frontier-physics-research - 2025-07-29

Published 2 October 2019 At the 31st MAX IV User Meeting on September 23-25, 2019 Susanna Hammarberg won the Student Poster Award 2019 for her poster: “Strain mapping of nanowire device using scanning XRD”.Read more about the poster award (in English) or read the news at MAXIV's home page (in English).

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Published 1 October 2019 The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced on October 1st that Kenneth Wärnmark wins one of 20 prestigious grants for ground-breaking research projects. The grant of 35 MSEK over five years is to support the project “Photofunctional iron complexes”, aiming to harvest solar energy with iron-based molecules.Kenneth will give a talk on the project on October 17th at 1

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-project-funding-kennet-warnmark - 2025-07-29

Published 27 August 2019 Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/have significantly contributed to the field of aerosol s

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Published 15 August 2019 We are very happy to announce that Luke Hankin is starting today as new Head of laboratory for Lund Nano Lab, succeeding Maria Huffman. Luke comes from a position as Engineering Director at Sol Voltaics where he has lead a team of 20 people. He was responsible for lab construction, equipment development, clean room, chemistry labs, IT and safety. Prior to that he has held

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Published 29 August 2019 A feature in Sydsvenskan describes Tönu Pullerits' research on perovskites as a material for more efficient solar cells and describes the limitations with the current silicon solar cells. The reason for the feature is that a journal article by Tönu and colleagues has been chosen as one of the best on Perovskites by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge.Read more in S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cell-research-featured-sydsvenskan - 2025-07-29

Published 9 July 2019 Cellevate AB, a company spun out from a project at the Engineering Nanoscience Program at Lund University, was named Nordic Nanotech Company of the Year 2019 last week at the NanoForum 2019 conference arranged by SwedNanoTech as part of the IVC-21. Another company spun-out from the NanoLund research environment, Hexagem AB, was also competed for the title as one of the three

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Published 9 July 2019 Rapidus reports that the recently established Spermosens AB secured 2,5 MSEK in funding from private investors and and 0,3 MSEK from Vinnova.Spermosens AB led by NanoLund graduate Kushagr Punyani, develops a diagnostic device for male infertility, predicting if the patient’s sperms would bind to and fertilize a healthy female egg, and hence diagnosing the underlying cause of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spermosens-ab-secures-funding - 2025-07-29

Published 5 June 2019 Andreas Wacker was interviewed on May 20th by Swedish Radio P4 about the 2019 redefinition of the kilogram according to the SI base units.Listen to the interview here (Kilogrammet pensioneras) or read Andreas' short summary of the changes.

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Published 22 May 2019 NanoLund postdoc Martin Hjort was selected to participate to the LMK foundation idea forum (LMK-stiftelsens Idéforum) in Björkliden, which will take place in September 2019.  The selection was made by nomination and in competition with many promising young researchers.

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