Were you among those who couldn’t make it to the conference EuroNanoForum2023? Don’t despair – we have gathered recordings of several sessions for you to watch. The EuroNanoForum 2023 marked a lively and engaging event where academia, industry, policymakers, and stakeholders converged to deliberate on Nanotechnology and advanced materials for a sustainable Europe. Collaborative Strategies for Sust

https://www.nano.lu.se/euronanoforum - 2025-09-09

Film made by “Faktabruket” for the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. NanoLundian Kimberly Dick is, for more than a decade, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and studies the building of new materials by working on an atom-scale. As put in the film: If an atom were the size of a Lego piece, lying in a hand, the hand would be the size of planet Earth. “Big discoveries are made when we realize somethin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/creating-completely-new-materials-atoms - 2025-09-09

Alfred Larsson assembles an electrochemical cell at the instrument "The Swedish Materials Science Beamline P21.2" at the PETRA III particle accelerator in Hamburg. Photo: Jinshan Pan Corrosion-resistant metallic materials are required in applications such as rocket engines, nuclear power stations and chemical industry. An alloy of nickel, chromium, and molybdenum is often used. However, a new stud

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/researchers-reveal-deficiencies-corrosion-resistant-metallic-materials - 2025-09-09

Welding, and whether new methods can be used to weld advanced alloys is in focus for the project for which Filip Lenrick has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Photo: Klas Holger Jönsson Among the four scholars from Lund University who have received ERC Starting Grants is Filip Lenrick, a researcher in industrial production, for the project “Bulk-like Joints by Gas Actuated Bonding”. The ERC Star

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolundian-filip-lenrick - 2025-09-09

Eleven new competence centers in Sweden get funding from Vinnova – four of them reside in Lund and two of the new ones are directly connected to NanoLund. Foto: Kennet Ruona Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, will invest in 11 new competence centers starting in January 2024. Among the new ones, two are directly connected to NanoLund – adding up to the already existing center C3NiT. New research

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-involved-vinnovas-new-competence-centers - 2025-09-09

Lung exposure to nanowires induces an inflammatory response and allergic response when tested on mice. “This emphasizes how important it is that we continue to take nanosafety into account”, says Professor Christelle Prinz, one of the researchers behind the study. In a collaboration with the National Research Center for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, led by Ulla Vogel, and the Finnish Inst

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/study-shows-importance-taking-nanosafety-account - 2025-09-09

Lectures, lab tours, Science Slam – and giving sneak peeks at MAX IV Laboratory Open Day. NanoLund and Solid State Physics were all over the place during the annual event ”Culture Night” (Kulturnatten). This year NanoLund participated again in a joint effort with the Physics Department at Lund University in the annual Kulturnatten (”Culture Night”) event in Lund. Together with other Divisions, Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/all-over-place-nanolund-participated-culture-night - 2025-09-09

Anne L’Huillier will be awarded the Lund University Gold Medal for her outstanding contribution. Photo: Evelina Lindén At Lund University’s annual ceremony in January, Professor Anne L'Huillier will receive Lund University’s gold medal for her outstanding contributions to the university. Lund University can award silver and gold medals to people who have made important contributions to either Lund

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-gold-medal-anne-lhuillier - 2025-09-09

The hall was quickly filled with colleagues wanting to congratulate Anne L’Huillier at Fysicum, Lund University. Photo: Evelina LIndén For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter, Professor Anne L’Huillier at Lund University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. Today, we celebrate t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/and-nobel-prize-now-announced - 2025-09-09

Unlocking the full potential of harnessing solar power requires significant advancements in the process of clean energy generation, including how we collect, convert, and store it. Maning Liu and his colleagues are exploring this on a molecular scale. “Twisted or planar?” is the question that our brand new NanoLundian, Assistant Professor Maning Liu, and his colleagues explore in their new article

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/maning-liu-pioneers-wise-celebrates-its-first-scientific-publication - 2025-09-09

“If we manage to solve how and why particles and light behave the way they do, and under what conditions, we can lay the foundation to whatever new technology there might be,” says Ville Maisi. Photo: Pixabay If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-09-09

Take your chance to work in a thriving and excellent research environment, recently celebrating the honor of being the workplace of a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. Spread the word: We are looking for an early career researcher with pioneering ideas in the field of optics of semi­conductor nanostructures. As an assistant professor, you will be embedded into the strategic research area NanoLund –

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tenure-track-position-assistant-professor-physics-semiconductor-optics - 2025-09-09

Eva Unger (in the middle) and Michael Saliba (next to her, right) receives the award from Helmholtz president Otmar D. Wiestler, Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Carla Seidel. Combining different disciplines and working together across centre boundaries to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our time – the energy transition – Eva Unger and her team fellows receive the first Helmholtz High Impact Aw

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/helmholtz-high-impact-award-nanolund-member-eva-unger - 2025-09-09

WISE (Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability) has opened two calls for the development of graduate courses and summer schools in 2024 with relevance to materials science for sustainability. The call for WISE Summer School 2024 aims to support the organisation of a one-week summer school. The summer school must be able to accommodate a minimum of 50 WISE graduate school members

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wise-funding-call-graduate-courses-and-summer-schools - 2025-09-09

The general concept of the droplet-free zone around the metal after heating to 600°C (left) and the destruction of the zone when heating to 650°C (right). Metal patterns printed on a III-V semiconductor material can control the appearance and positions of droplets arising on its surface when heated. The result is a significant step forward for controlled device fabrication on a chip. Semiconductor

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/controllable-droplets-carry-promise-self-assembled-nanodevices - 2025-09-09

The prizes for best posters were awarded to Ruby Davtyan, Meena Raveesh and Mattias Ammitzböll. Photo: Evelina Lindén Nanowires, quantum dots, lasers, and much more. At the Synergy Day 2023, researchers from Lund Laser Centre and NanoLund together with MAX IV Laboratory met under the umbrella of Lund university’s profile area Light & Materials for an entire day, doing what we all love most: marvel

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/success-light-materials-synergy-day - 2025-09-09

The NanoLund annual student retreat is a popular event, gathering students, PhD students, and postdocs from NanoLund. Photo: Nils Gustafsson This year’s NanoLund Student and Postdoc retreat took place in Smygehamn with almost 70 participants. They used the opportunity to dive into the topics “Work-Life-Balance” and “Communication” during the two days at the idyllic south coast of Skåne. In early O

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/balancing-work-and-life-nanolund-student-and-postdoc-retreat - 2025-09-09

Illustration of phage virus injecting its DNA into a cell. Image: Alex Evilevitch and Ting Liu Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the USA, have mapped on an atomic level what happens in a virus particle when the temperature is raised. “When the temperature rises, the virus’s genetic material changes its form and density, becoming more fluid

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-increase-triggers-viral-infection - 2025-09-09

Photo by Flockine/Pixabay Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to “clean up” their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Wh

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-09-09

“We were surprised by how nicely the symmetry break of the pillars on the micrometer scale was reflected in the overall behavior of the waves on the millimeter scale,” says Jonas Tegenfeldt. First, they discovered how DNA can move in wavelike patterns on the millimeter scale in microfluidics devices – now they also have found a way of controlling the behaviour. Four researchers connected to NanoLu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/effect-symmetry-dna-waves - 2025-09-09