Once a year, NanoLundians gather in Lund for an annual meeting: An entire day full of scientific talks, microphone tossing, poster mingling, and plenty of opportunities to discuss all varieties of playing with the energies inside materials.
This year’s theme was “Materials – building the world” and the exciting program was put together by Maria Messing and Mattias Borg at NanoLund. Together with chairs Kimberly Thelander, Martin Leijnse, and Sara Blomberg they guided us all through the topics: Organic and earth-abundant materials, Quantum Materials, and Synthesis and Integration. Also, we had the pleasure to listen to several pitches of the posters.
After dinner was enjoyed, several prizes were distributed. Mikelis Marnauza and Robin Sjökvist, Rubén Seoane Souto, Tania Lima, Linnéa Jönsson, Linnea Lindh, Jennifer Gilbert, Morten Ib Kjӕrgaard Munk, Yen-Po Liu, Simon Wozny, Patrik Wirgin, Sungyoun Ju, and David Alcer were the awardees.
We want to extend our warmest congratulations to all of the awardees, and express our gratitude for all the good work done through the entire organization,
Maria Messing, Anneli Löfgren and Anders Mikkelsen,
for the leadership of NanoLund
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After the panel discussion during “Politics Week” in Almedalen, Lund University and partners continue working towards forming a national agenda and a competence center for semiconductors in Sweden.
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Able to fully celebrate the annual ”Culture Night” on location in Lund again after a couple of pandemic years of digital versions, NanoLund and the Department of Physics contributed by showing the amazing world of physics – covering topics from the smallest elements to the deepest mysteries of the universe.
“To me, participating in Kulturnatten is something that we should eagerly continue with, because it’s a wonderful chance to open our doors to the community, share what we are so passionate about and get to see that same excitement and passion in our visitors – young and old alike,” says Adam Burke, outreach coordinator at NanoLund.
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The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awarding SEK 700 million to 23 innovative basic research projects at Swedish universities. Four of them are based in Lund – and two are connected to NanoLund. Sara Linse, NanoLund faculty member, will study disease-preventing proteins – and Mathieu Gisselbrecht will study the quantum mechanical phenomenon entanglement together with members of NanoLund.
“If we understand the principle of how the chaperones work, we might be able to create a drug molecule based on the same principle that could be used in new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s disease and type 2 diabetes,” says Sara Linse.
“If we succeed, this could become a method that could help find materials to build quantum computers that can withstand higher temperatures, with the possibility of fast operations,” says Mathieu Gisselbrecht.
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NanoLund researchers Björn Annby-Andersson and Peter Samuelsson have developed a “master equation” that will help engineers understand feedback at the quantum scale.
Many everyday technologies make use of feedback control routinely in order to manage the operations of devices and processes. But physicists do not yet have an equivalent understanding of feedback control at the quantum level.
Annby-Andersson and his colleagues have now developed a master equation, called a “Quantum Fokker-Planck equation”, that enables physicists to track the evolution of any quantum system with a feedback control over time.
“The equation can describe scenarios that go beyond linear feedback,” says Annby-Andersson.
“In particular, the equation can be solved with pen and paper, rather than having to rely on computer simulations.”
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“Our main conclusion is that nanowires are promising building blocks for the next generation of high-efficiency solar cells at an economically viable cost that are sustainable, flexible, and radiation hard,” says NanoLund researcher Lukas Hrachowina. |
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Per Augustsson, Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his work on how liquids and cells behave in a sound field.
“Blood consists mainly of red blood cells, but also contains white blood cells that are part of the immune system. In the blood of people affected by cancer, there may also be circulating tumor cells, which are believed to play a role in how cancer spreads between different organs in the body. In order to understand the role of different types of blood cells in healthy and sick individuals, it is of interest to medical researchers to be able to separate different types of cells from the blood so they can be studied in detail. We believe that ultrasound-based separation can give them a powerful tool to achieve this”, says Per Augustsson. |
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The Sparbanken Skåne Prize to a new doctor at LTH for particularly outstanding doctoral thesis is in 2022 awarded NanoLundian Louise Gren for her thesis in Aerosol Technology: “Renewable Diesel Fuels and Emission Control Strategies – Implications for Occupational Exposure, Human Health, and the Environment”.
Sparbanken Skåne's CEO Andreas P. Nilsson presented the award to Louise Green at LTH’s graduation ceremony.
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Normally, Nobel Symposia are quite rare, therefore it is quite remarkable that NanoLund researchers were the main organizers of two symposia that took place nearly at the same time. The Nobel Symposium NS 173: “Exploring complex molecular and condensed phase processes and functions by multidimensional spectroscopy from THz to X-rays” was held August 7–11 in Båstad. The Nobel Symposium NS166: “Emerging Quantum Technologies” was held August 25–28 in Malmö.
“There are strong reasons to believe that we now, during the beginning of the 21st century, are at the brink of a second quantum revolution”, says Martin Leijnse from the organizing committee of the Nobel Symposium on Emerging Quantum Technologies.
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