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NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen thanks the staff for all your contributions. The end of 2024 is getting closer, and in the midst of the final hectic attempt to finish all projects and ideas, we can look back at the year. We sadly had to say goodbye to our deputy director Maria Messing, who took a new leadership position at Chalmers. After a thorough process, the recruiting group found a new top
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wrapping-year - 2026-06-05
NanoLund researchers engage in three of the competence centres invested in by Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova. It has been a productive year for all of them – below, you can read their reports from 2024. C3NiT, managed by Vanya Darakchieva has for the second time arranged its yearly meeting in Lund with great success together with industrial and academic partners. The updates on the six projec
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strong-year-our-vinnova-competence-centres - 2026-06-05
The long-term vision of the InsectNeuroNano project is a novel on-chip hybrid nanostructure platform for energy-efficient, fast artificial neural networks and integrated sensor arrays. The Horizon Europe programme InsectNeuroNano had an exciting visit to Lund University School of Economics and Management, whose students participated in a business case competition. The students all received a small
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/business-students-presented-ideas-commercializing-insectneuronano-bee-chip - 2026-06-05
Martin Leijnse is the new Deputy Director of NanoLund, and our new chair is Margaret McNamee. We welcome Martin Leijnse, a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, as our new Deputy Director of NanoLund. He succeeds Maria Messing, who is currently at Chalmers. After Heiner Linke, the NanoLund Board has a new chair: Margaret McNamee, a Professor of Fire Safety Engineering and Deputy Dean of LTH.Marti
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-deputy-director-and-new-chair-board - 2026-06-05
Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires in a ligand-free way. The yield is dramatically improved using a controlled nitrogen flow, and in situ microscopy is used to visualize the growth dynamics. Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires ligand-free. A controlled nitrogen flow dramatic
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/ligand-free-method-grow-vertically-aligned-free-standing-nanowires - 2026-06-05
Using superconducting semiconductor hybrids, Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Thelander, and Ville Maisi has demonstrated a continuous microwave photon detection using superconducting semiconductor hybrids. Microwave Photons contain about five orders of magnitude lower energy than a visible photon. Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, An
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/continuous-microwave-photon-counting-semiconductor-superconductor-hybrids - 2026-06-05
Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772. Armin Tavakoli's research focuses on the complex phenomena that characterize the quantum world, where particles can affect each other at a distance and are governed by chance. His work explores both the fundamental aspects of quantum physics and its practical applications, such as
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/royal-physiographic-society-gives-sten-von-friesen-prize-armin-tavakoli - 2026-06-05
The winter season virus has struck – and covid-19 is still part of everyday life. But unlike during the pandemic, we now know more about how the virus is spread through the air we breathe. Research results from Malin Alsved and Jakob Löndahl show that it only takes a few minutes in the same room as an infected person to catch the virus. The aerosol researchers at LTH are behind the study, in which
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-fast-you-can-catch-covid-19-through-air - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund researchers Anna Sundlöv and Katarina Sjögreen-Gleisner have developed a method to personalise treatment using a newly approved radioactive cancer drug – by taking images of the drug’s dispersion inside the patient. Their article won the best publication of the year prize awarded by the journal EJNMMI Physics. Th
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-lund-receive-prize-publication-year - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Plastic waste is a growing problem around the world, despite efforts to recycle or reduce plastic use. In order to really transform the recycling process, more attention needs to be paid to the composition of plastic, according to a new research article from Lund University in Sweden. The paper presents strategies on
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-does-future-plastic-look - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the presence or absence of moonlight has a considerable bearing on when migratory birds take flight in the autumn. Together with colleagues at the Department of Biology at Lund University, Gabriel Norevik studied European nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) and how t
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/moon-determines-when-migratory-birds-head-south - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Martin Leijnse, researcher in solid state physics at Lund University in Sweden, has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) synergy grant worth EUR 1.5 million. He shares the total grant amount of EUR 10 million with three researchers from the University of Copenhagen. The four researchers have worked t
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-unusual-quantum-state - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The jet-setting habits of Bill Gates and Paris Hilton mean that they produce an astonishing 10,000 times more carbon emissions from flying than the average person. This was the conclusion of my research mining their social media accounts (tweets, Instagram and Facebook posts) as well as those of a number of other cele
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. International sustainability policies set out clear goals for protecting ecosystems and biodiversity, but how to actually achieve these goals remains elusive in practice, as biodiversity loss continues at an alarming rate. A new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability by an international team of 32 scient
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and The University of Western Australia shows that the pressure from water droplets on a leaf surface triggers stress hormones like jasmonic acid. These cellular changes become apparent very quickly and can could make plants better equipped to with
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/impact-water-droplets-leaves-quickly-triggers-stress-responses-plants - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Endurance running is often seen as a welcome escape from everyday life. But extraordinary experiences, such as running ultra-marathons, are not untouched by the competitive nature of contemporary consumer culture, a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden argues. The at times romanticized notion of experiencing comp
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-attracts-people-endurance-running - 2026-06-05
Insulin which is released by pancreatic beta-cells is the main regulator of blood sugar. Previous and current studies by a research group at Lund University in Sweden have identified around hundred different receptors on the surface of the beta-cells, with a diverse functional impact on the beta-cells. Now researchers at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at University of Sharjah, U
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/key-mechanism-insulin-release-cholesterol-metabolite-found - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international research team have discovered a peculiar object circling a red giant star. The celestial body is invisible but still has a strong impact on the star’s orbit. With the help of data simulations carried out at Lund University, the researchers have now been able to establish that the mysterious companion
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-have-tracked-black-hole-near-red-giant-star - 2026-06-05
Controlling smartphones by a simple swipe of your hand is the latest innovation to be introduced to phone owners. However, radar sensors with higher accuracy would take the concept from gimmick to practical usefulness, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have developed a method that could detect much finer gestures – while also using a lot less power – opening up to new app
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-unique-technology-will-make-gesture-control-more-accurate - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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-base
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-based-solar-cells-track-becoming-more-efficient - 2026-06-05
