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NanoLundian and Assistant professor Sara Blomberg at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lunds tekniska högskola, Lunds universitet, was awarded the Swedish Catalysis Society Berzelius Prize at the 19th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis in Esbo stad, Finland. Sara Blomberg receives the prize for broadening the possibilities to measure processes on the catalytic surface and the gas phase simultaneo

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/swedish-catalysis-society-berzelius-prize-nanolundian - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/camilla-modeer-named-honorary-doctor - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Coun

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/thomas-laurell-wins-distinguished-professor-grant - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 a

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-grants-hosted-nanolund - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 E

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-asa-haglund - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-alfred-larsson - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kimberly-dick-thelander-named-wallenberg-scholar - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 to be able to capture and decode the messages in the vesicles via a standard blood test. Thomas Laurell, professor of biom

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/early-detection-diseases-aided-bodys-own-nanoparticles - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Take a leading role in Europe’s future center of Materials Science – apply for the position. At Lund University we are currently building Europe’s future center for materials research. It will combine, within a single campus area:• Excellent university-based materials research;• Lund Nano Lab, part of the national inf

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wanted-professor-materials-science - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria Messing receives a grant from Future Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Nano Design meets Organic Chemistry for Greener Catalysts is the name of the research program led by Maria Messing, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. This is the summary of the project:   One

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolundian-gets-grant-greener-catalysts - 2026-06-11

The process of establishing a new Nanolab in the immediate vicinity of MAX IV and ESS is moving further as decided by the Board of LTH. The lab – Nanolab Science Village – will be the first step to establishing Lund University’s research operations in Science Village. The location for Nanolab Science Village has been identified for a long time and the plan was approved by the City of Lund in 2018.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-towards-new-nanolab-science-village - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Exciting research for PhD students is waiting ahead. Co-funded by EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, we are now opening as many as 11 projects in nanoscience and nanotechnology – in physics, chemistry and biomedicine – for application. Initial deadline for applications: May 4, 2020Candidates can freely apply for one o

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/11-open-doctoral-positions-nanolund - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are many questions concerning the coronavirus and infection prevention that need to be answered as soon as possible. Jakob Löndahl, associate professor in aerosol technology at Lund University and faculty member of NanoLund is currently working to analyse air samples from patient rooms at Lund University hospita

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/air-samples-coronavirus-patient-rooms-being-analysed - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Oxana Klementieva and her colleagues in Lund and at Synchrotron SOLEIL in France have used a new method, optical photothermal spectroscopy (O-PTIR) to study protein structures in neurons from mice affected by early stage Alzheimer’s disease. “We saw that the structure of the protein changes in different ways depending

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anne L’Huillier has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million for the project Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses. With the grant from ERC Anne and colleagues plan to use laser technology to create ultra-short light pulses to study the motion of el

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-advanced-grant-awarded-anne-lhuillier - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a paper, recently published in Nature Communications with researchers from NanoLund and Lund Laser Centre, the ultrafast optical dynamics of porous gold nanosponges filled with zinkoxide was studied. This type of hybrid plasmon-emitter system could be useful for future optical computers as they are able to strongly

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/porous-gold-nanosponges-can-be-useful-future-computers - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a recent review article Donatas Zigmantas and colleagues from 16 universities and institutes in Europe, Canada, the US and Singapore critically assess previously proposed persistence and role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic light harvesting. In the article they analyse the recent work on coherence in photosy

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/no-quantum-effect-photosynthetic-light-harvesting - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Through the advanced synchrotron radiation facility MAX IV, senior scientists and materials specialists from NanoLund are contributing to giving Alfa Laval detailed insights of the nanometer thin oxide which protects products in stainless steel from corrosion. Together with Alfa Laval and MAX IV, NanoLund researchers

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/protecting-nano-thin-oxide-layer-studied-alfa-laval - 2026-06-11

NanoLund has had an excellent 2019 – with an increasing amount of publications, more than 70 invited talks all over the world, 21 new graduated PhDs, and much more. Having been a Strategic Research Area of Sweden for a full decade now, NanoLund can look back on yet another year of success. 286 scientific publications, directly related to nanoscience, sets a new record. Of the 148 PhD students acti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-annual-report-out - 2026-06-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Due to the Corona pandemic, scientists all over the world have begun focusing on every aspect possible of the virus. NanoLund poses no exception. To detect a virus or other infectious agents, medical and clinical laboratories usually employ the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This method, invented 1983, is widely use

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-scientists-mobilize-against-covid-19 - 2026-06-11