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2020 turned out to be a year like no other. It challenged us, but we found ways to keep up our good work. Read all about how NanoLund performed this special year in our annual report. Not only did NanoLund find ways to continue forwards despite ever-changing restrictions – but also did our best to contribute with research on covid-testing, mapping the way viruses spread, and much more. Our publica

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-annual-report-2020 - 2025-12-19

With nanoscience, we possess the keys to many solutions for the planet as well as for the human race. The need for high technology for, among other things, precision medicine and sustainable, renewable energy is growing. To achieve a healthier and more sustainable society, we need to strengthen research resources and infrastructure. But how do we do this in the best way, to achieve maximum synergy

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sustainable-energy-and-new-ways-finding-and-curing-diseases-nanoscience-places-sweden-forefront - 2025-12-19

In a pioneering nano experiment, a research team in Lund has successfully constructed a new and very efficient microwave photon detector. The discovery could accelerate the development of future quantum computers. Microwaves are a collective term for electromagnetic radiation in the higher radio frequency bands; they can be used for everything from warming up fish dishes to searching for extraterr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/successful-experiment-microwaves-could-result-better-quantum-computers - 2025-12-19

The students were recruited internationally during the pandemic. Now, with restrictions eased, it was finally possible to have a kick-off meeting, interact and identify synergies between their projects which are in materials science, biomedicine and energy. In 2020, NanoLund was awarded GenerationNano, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND nanoscience doctoral training program to address sustainability

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/14-nanolund-phd-students-kick-nanoscience-research-sustainability - 2025-12-19

Finally, the NanoLund community could arrange for an annual meeting together at the same venue. The theme of the meeting was ”Light for Nano – Nano for Light”. Every autumn, NanoLund celebrates scientific results by arranging a symposium on a specific focus theme, with invited talks by leading scientists, local presentations, and a large poster session on NanoLund research. Also invited are friend

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/weve-met-again-report-annual-meeting-2021 - 2025-12-19

The semiconductor shortage was one reason why Swedish Minister of EU Affairs Hans Dahlgren recently visited NanoLund and the Lund Nano Lab. – We’ve been given a very fascinating description of how far ahead we are in Sweden and here in Lund, when it comes to research and development of the most valuable technologies we currently have: those of nano-scale components in semiconductors and other aspe

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/minister-eu-affairs-paid-nanolund-visit - 2025-12-19

Site-selected crystal material synthesis at the atomic scale has been a long-standing challenge. NanoLundians Rainer Timm and Yi Liu use nanowire crystal phase heterostructures as templates for self-selective growth of one- and two-dimensional GaBi nanostructures, which allows a versatile design with atomic-scale precision. Scaling down material synthesis to crystalline structures only a few atoms

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/novel-nanostructure-formation-atomic-scale-precision - 2025-12-19

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a completely new stimulation method, using ultra-thin microelectrodes, to combat severe pain. This provides effective and personalised pain relief without the common side effects from pain relief drugs. The study, which was conducted on rats, has been published in the research journal Science Advances. The lack of a side effect-free treatment

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/pain-relief-without-side-effects-promising-technique-0 - 2025-12-19

The team behind the tour of the theatre play The right way recently gave their last performance for researchers and staff at Lund University. The right way has been part of an outreach activity for high school students focusing on how we handle new research findings in our everyday lives. The team behind the theatre play Den rätta vägen (The right way, in English) recently concluded their tour aro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/last-performance-right-way - 2025-12-19

After having been postponed last year due to the pandemic, the annual NanoLund retreat for student members, PhD students and postdocs did a well-received return in October. With a focus on networking, attendants from across NanoLund disciplines enjoyed two days filled with activities at Backafallsbyn on Hven island. With people being largely restricted in interacting with co-workers during the pas

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/young-nanolundians-have-met-again-report-nanolund-student-retreat-2021 - 2025-12-19

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is investing over SEK 3 billion in research that creates the conditions for a sustainable society. This will be done by developing new and improved materials and manufacturing processes, which, among other things, aim at better technology for the energy systems of the future and the control of pollution and toxic emissions. In addition, an increased investm

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/billions-materials-science-sustainable-world - 2025-12-19

Last Monday a large group of undergraduates gathered in K-space at the promise of free pizza and inspiring presentations on brain-inspired designs in engineering – given by four NanoLund researchers. Mattias Borg and Lars-Erik Wernersson of the Nanoelectronics department at LTH spoke about novel memory devices that act as artificial synapses in neuromorphic systems, and the future role these devic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/successful-pizza-science-night - 2025-12-19

Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomaterials increases, research questions about safety are becoming urgent. ‟We need to know more about the conditions in which nanoparticles can affect us and how we can safely handle these materials.” Her research is about understanding how nanoparticles are generated and releas

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-12-19

Earlier this year, Magnus Borgström and Yang Chen received a special commendation in the Future Innovations for their idea “Transparent solar cells: Solar cell windows”. In this podcast produced by VentureLab (Lund University), they talk about the recent developments of their idea. They discuss how transparent solar cells based on semiconductor materials work and how they can be used. One question

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/venturelabs-innovation-podcast-including-nanolund-researchers-magnus-borgstrom-and-yang-chen - 2025-12-19

Peter Jönsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and affiliated to NanoLund, is awarded this year's prize from the Sven and Ebba-Christina Hagberg Foundation. Jönsson is being recognized for his studies of protein-protein interactions on cell surfaces that control communication between cells. Congratulations on the award, Peter, how does it feel? – Thank you! I am honoured and totally

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemistry-scientist-awarded-studies-cell-communication - 2025-12-19

Have you always wanted to visit the cleanroom Lund Nano Lab? Or are you curious about how researchers separate cancer cells from the blood with lab-on-a-chip technique? Or – maybe you just want to make your own pH indicator out of red cabbage. We hope that you haven’t missed LTH’s Christmas calendar filled with exciting experiments. Each day a short film is being published, where students at LTH s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/christmas-calendar-lth-gift-keeps-giving - 2025-12-19

Superconductors are a cornerstone of quantum computers and particle detectors, among other things. However, a common problem is that their efficiency is degraded by various interferences. Now, researchers have come one step closer to explaining what is happening through high-precision measurements. The results are now being published in Nature Physics. Superconductivity depends on the presence of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/moments-silence-point-way-towards-better-superconductors - 2025-12-19

Using a mathematical model, researchers have been able to link confirmed covid-19 cases with intensive care admissions and deaths. The model, which allows prediction and planning of health care burden, could be valuable during the current pandemic as well as in future epidemics. A Swedish research team, including Lund University, has used a so-called FIR model (a type of filter for digital systems

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mathematical-model-useful-pandemic-planning - 2025-12-19

A new study shows that carbon nanotubes used as additives to polymers – to make materials lighter, stronger, and electrically conductive – do not necessarily degrade under the conditions that normally prevail in waste incineration plants. However, if the temperature is increased, or the residence time in the flue gas is extended, they will be destructed. “Contrary to what has previously been thoug

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/higher-temperatures-are-needed-ensure-carbon-nanotubes-decomposition - 2025-12-19

Using X-ray and neutron scattering, a team of researchers in Lund has succeeded in mapping the fibril structure of the beta-amyloid 42 protein that contributes to Alzheimer’s disease. The new knowledge could be an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in the future search for effective drugs. In Alzheimer’s disease, the atrophy of the nerve cells in the brain leads to memory problems and cognitive

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-detailed-knowledge-harmful-protein-can-help-fighting-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-19