Published 28 November 2017 NanoLund Affiliated Member Anne L’Huillier has been involved in a study where researchers have clocked how long it takes for an electron to be emitted from an atom. The result is 0.000 000 000 000 000 02 seconds, or 20 billionths of a billionth of a second. The researchers’ stopwatch consists of extremely short laser pulses. Hopefully, the results will help to provide ne

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unbelievable-speed-electron-emission-atom - 2025-08-03

Published 23 October 2017 A group of Lund University researchers including Peter Schurtenberger have published a paper demonstrating that they can use oppositely charged thermoresponsive particles with complementary shapes, such as spherical and bowl-shaped particles, to implement an externally controllable lock-and-key self-assembly mechanism. The goal is to have the particles self-organize in or

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-can-control-lock-and-key-self-assembly-mechanism - 2025-08-03

Published 10 October 2017 An interdisciplinary environmental project between the Lund based theater Sagohuset and the division of Chemistry and Structural Biology at Lund University has resulted in two plays and an exhibition which shows the effects of plastic in the oceans. Tommy Cedervall can answer questions about the project. Read more on the LU event page (in Swedish), in LUM (in Swedish), Sk

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/play-nanoplastic-aquatic-environments - 2025-08-03

Published 9 October 2017 Tommy Nylander is awarded the Norblad-Ekstrand medal by the Swedish Chemical Society. In connection with this he will give a talk entitled ”Reflections on the biointerface: Structure, interactions and processes" on October 19 at 18.00 at the Department of Chemistry. Read more here.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/norblad-ekstrand-medal-tommy-nylander - 2025-08-03

Published 3 October 2017 A team of NanoLund scientists led by Kimberly Dick Thelander has been awarded 34,2 MSEK over five years for the project "Controlled atomic scale 3D ordering for exotic electronic phases". The grant was awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to projects of the highest international level, and potentially leading to future scientific breakthroughs. The grants gi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-grant-kimberly-dick-thelander - 2025-08-03

Published 9 October 2017 A new study by NanoLund researchers shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains. The plastic can cause brain damage, which is the likely cause of behavioural disorders observed in the fish.“Our study is the first to show that nanosized plastic particles can accumulate in fish brains”, says Tommy Cedervall, a chemistry researcher at Lund University.T

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-nanoparticles-affects-fish-brains - 2025-08-03

Published 2 September 2017 European Workshop on Label Free Particle Sorting will take place at Medicon Village in Lund, 5-6 September 2017. The workshop aim to utilise the comprehensive network and solid experience to put to use several microfluidics technologies to address important biomedical problems.For details please contact Prof Jonas Tegenfeldt (jonas [dot] tegenfeldt [at] ftf [dot] lth [do

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/european-workshop-label-free-particle-sorting-5-6-september - 2025-08-03

Published 12 September 2017 Peter Jönsson has been granted an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 M Euro for 5 years. The project named SELFOR explores how an immune response starts at a molecular level, and how our immune system can separate between “self” and “foreign” molecules.Read the Lund University press release (in Swedish), the announcement from the Swedish Science Foundation (in Swedish and in Eng

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-peter-jonsson - 2025-08-03

Published 25 August 2017 Rapidus reports that Google Inc has invested 120 MSEK in Glo in a funding round during the summer. Glo is developing RGB direct-emitting display panels with better contrast and lower power consumption than LCD screens while yielding higher overall brightness than OLED.In total Glo has attracted about 1200 MSEK since the start in 2008 when it spun out from research at NanoL

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/google-invests-glos-microled-technology - 2025-08-03

Published 29 August 2017 Two new nanofabrication facilities are scheduled to be built in Science Village Scandinavia neighboring MaxIV and ESS. One laboratory will be a bigger version of the Lund University run Lund NanoLab which is dedicated to education and blue sky research. The other is the ProNano facility which will belong to the RISE research Institute and house pilot production facilities.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-new-nanolaboratories-be-built - 2025-08-03

Published 15 August 2017 NanoLund spin out Sol Voltaics secured 21 million US dollar in a funding round over the summer. The new finance will be used to accelerate commercialization of its highly anticipated solar efficiency boosting technology, SolFilm™ which promises to increase conventional solar panel efficiencies by up to 50%“This latest round of finance gives us the critical capital required

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/21-million-dollar-funding-sol-voltaics - 2025-08-03

Published 30 June 2017 June 8th 2017 the deputy Vice-Chancellor appointed Arkady Yartsev Professor in Chemical Physics with specialization in ultrafast spectroscopy. Read more about Arkady on his homepage.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/arkady-yartsev-appointed-professor - 2025-08-03

Published 26 June 2017 Håkan Pettersson has been elected Sweden's representative in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Semiconductors.The Commission on Semiconductors (C8) was established 1957 to promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international scientific community in the general field of Semiconductor Physics.Read more abo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/hakan-pettersson-iupap-semiconductor-commission - 2025-08-03

Published 7 July 2017 In a new study, Donatas Zigmantas and Erling Thyrhaug from NanoLund, together with researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have studied nanoclusters consisting of 20 silver atoms. For the first time, the researchers managed to measure the exact energy levels and identified that the ultrafast energy flow is linked to the structural changes that occur when light excites

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/silver-atom-nanoclusters-could-become-efficient-biosensors - 2025-08-03

Published 13 September 2017 Researchers from NanoLund and from Fudan University in China have successfully designed a new structural organization using the promising solar cell material perovskite. The study shows that solar cells increase in efficiency thanks to the material’s ability to self-organise by standing on edge.The current research study deals with perovskite, a new and promising materi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cells-more-efficient-thanks-new-material-standing-edge - 2025-08-03

Published 21 April 2017 Researchers involved in NanoLund have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change shape depending on the surrounding environment. The results can contribute to the future development of transport channels for drugs through the cell membrane.In the present study, researchers from Lund Univ

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanotubes-build-themselves - 2025-08-03

Published 7 April 2017 A group of researchers active at NanoLund have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development of affordable and environmentally friendly materials for e.g. solar cells, light sources and displays.Through advanced molecular design, the Lund researchers have now successfully manipulated the electronic properties of iron-b

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/modern-alchemy-creates-luminescent-iron-molecules - 2025-08-03

Published 7 April 2017 The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather in three dimensions. This has lead researchers at Lund University in Sweden to develop a porous “spaghetti” of tissue-friendly polymers with cavities in which the cells can develop in a more natural way.The Lund resea

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cells-grow-more-naturally-spaghetti - 2025-08-03

Published 24 March 2017 Please save the date for NanoLunds annual meeting 2017 on Thursday, September 7.We are planning to hold the meeting in Lund, in an all-day format with talks and posters during the day and a joint dinner in the evening. More information and the opportunity to register will come well before the summer break.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-annual-meeting-7-september-2017 - 2025-08-03

Published 23 March 2017 Professor Kenneth Wärnmark at the Department of Chemistry and active in NanoLund has been awarded the 2017 Edlund Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for his cutting-edge research on iron-based dyes in solar cells.Read more on the homepage of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chemist-receives-prize-royal-swedish-academy-sciences - 2025-08-03