Professor Anne L’Huillier is one of the 2022 Wolf Prize laureates in physics. The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2022 is awarded to Professor Anne L’Huillier of LTH, along with Paul Corkum of the University of Ottawa, Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and Ludwig Maximilian of the University of Munich, for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond phy

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-wolf-prize-physics - 2025-09-11

Tönu Pullerits and Kaibo Zheng by the laser spectroscopy setup used in the study. Photo: Pavel Chabera Solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the future. The study is published in Nature Communications.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/breakthrough-converting-co2-fuel-using-solar-energy - 2025-09-11

Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of Nanoelectronics, believes that Sweden has a good chance of becoming a leader in research and development to develop the semiconductor technologies of the future. Photo: Lund University and Mostphotos In Lund, you can find world-leading research in circuit design, new materials, and algorithms that utilize the properties of semiconductor components. Also, strong i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sweden-can-make-leading-contribution-future-semiconductor-technologies - 2025-09-11

Martin Adell, Technology Platform Manager at Tetra Pak and Axel Knutsson, Materials Specialist at Alfa Laval at the MAXPEEM beamline at MAX IV synchrotron. Photo: Filip Lenrick A close collaboration between researchers in sustainable production and materials engineering and researchers at NanoLund is now taking a step up – and together they are developing new initiatives. Nanotechnology and nanosc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unique-collaboration-model-sustainable-production-industry - 2025-09-11

Stanley Heinze and his team will map the brains of for example silverfish, bees, grasshoppers, and butterflies. Photo: Johan Joelsson and Rene Sylvestersen, Wikimedia Commons NanoLundian Stanley Heinze gets an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, for creating a deeper understanding of the insect brain. Stanley Heinze, Principal investigator at NanoLund and researcher at the D

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-insect-brain-mapping - 2025-09-11

Are you struggling to writing an application for a call on sustainable development? Do not despair! The Sustainability Forum at Lund University has summarised tips for you of things to think about, to facilitate the writing process. The nine tips of things to think about in the application writing process have been summarised in a short animated movie: Animation: 9 tips for writing research applic

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tips-writing-research-applications-calls-sustainable-development-and-agenda-2030 - 2025-09-11

Since their foundation in 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings have developed into a unique international scientific forum. This year, NanoLundian Ofentse Makgae is participating. The Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings are annually hosting an event where young scientists – students, PhD candidates and post-docs – meet with Nobel Laureates. This year, NanoLundian Ofentse Makgae is one of the Swedis

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-among-delegates-lindau-nobel-laureate-meetings - 2025-09-11

Sara Thuresson with the special equipment used to perform the measurements. Photo: Kennet Ruona The risk of exposure to covid-19 virus particles increases the closer you are to a patient, the higher virus levels of the patient, and if ventilation is inadequate. Measurements of viruses in the hospital air by researchers at Lund University provide new knowledge on how best to adapt care to reduce th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-virus-particles-air-can-reduce-spread-infection-hospitals - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

Jesper Schwarz, Aleksandra Ilic and Kenneth Wärnmark demonstrate their red iron complex inside a hydrogen balloon in front of a light reactor. Missing are Reiner Lomoth and Catherine Johnson from Uppsala University. Photo by Johan Joelsson. 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 cou

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-step-towards-large-scale-fossil-free-hydrogen-production - 2025-09-11

The study demonstrates a low-temperature solution process to prepare free-standing vertically aligned green-emitting nanowires from anodized aluminum oxide templates. The length is controlled from 1 to 20 μm by the precursor amount. Picture: NanoLetters For the first time, researchers have succeeded in growing vertically aligned, free-standing metal halide perovskite (MHP) nanowires. This scalable

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/free-standing-metal-halide-perovskite-nanowires-one-step-closer-new-clean-energy - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

Aerosol particles in the smoke were measured while firefighters practiced in realistic conditions. Watch a short film (in Swedish) about the research project. 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unique-project-studies-fire-smoke-detail - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

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 - 2025-09-11

The vesicles function as the body’s internet, and carry information on the patient’s disease state. To capture and decode them – that’s the challenge, says professor Thomas Laurell. Photo: Lars Owesson 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 t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/early-detection-diseases-aided-bodys-own-nanoparticles - 2025-09-11