Organizing Molecular Matter

December 2011: Viveka Alfredsson was promoted to Professor.

October 2011: The recent article about measuring water exchange with diffusion MRI by Daniel Topgaard and colleagues was highlighted in the Spinsights NMR blog.

October 25-27, 2011: Soft and hard matter - A symposium on surface and materials chemistry, Kårhuset, Lund

October 2011: Daniel Topgaard was granted SEK 2,500,000 by the Faculty of Science for the formation of an NMR-center including most of the current NMR spectrometers at the Department of Chemistry. 

September 2011: During 2011 there has been a debate on Swedish television about the adhesion of fermented dairy products to packages. Because of that, in Sweden alone, approximately 2000 tones of top-quality yoghurt, goes directly into the waste bin. In collaboration with department of Theoretical Chemistry at Lund University, and the division of New Material Design at Tetra Pak, a master thesis project was set up, with focus on why fermented milk products stick to packaging materials. Read the report

September 2011: Emma Sparr reports from the World Economic Forum of the New Championship - read the article (in Swedish)

August 2011: Sara Snogerup Linse received the EuCheMS Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award. Together with 22 other eminent women re-searchers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from all over the world Sara Snogerup Linse received an award for Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering at the IUPACs World Chemistry Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This is part of the ACS Challenge Grant-Interational Year of Chemistry Celebration.Read more 

June 2011: Södra's Research Foundation funds Theoretical Chemistry with SEK 2.000.000. The project, lead by Mikael Lund and Gunnar Karlström, focuses on dissolution of cellulose molecules and is part of the CelluNova project

May 2011: Emma Sparr becomes Young Academy member. The Young Academy of Sweden has been founded. The initiative comes from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA). The academy is an independent organization for young researchers from all scientific areas. It´s aim is to strengthen Sweden as a nation of knowledge.  More information

 March 2011: Emma Sparr was appointed Professor in Physical chemistry - Colloidal Biology

February, 2011:
News article. The new article about magnetic nanoparticles by Peter Schurtenberger and colleagues was featured in the  news section  of J. Phys.: Condens. Matter:
“Magnetic properties of silica coated spindle-type hematite particles ”, M Reufer et al.  J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 065102 (2011)

February, 2011:
Hot article in Soft Matter. A new article from researchers at Physical Chemistry has been highlighted on the Soft Matter blog:
“Work hardening of soft glassy materials, or a metallurgist’s view of peanut butter”, Romaric R. R. Vincent and Peter Schurtenberger,  Soft Matter, 2011

February, 2011: 
Financial Times highlights successful Phys Chem - Procter & Gamble research collaboration. In an article from 28.12.2010, the Financial Times highlights the successful long-standing research collaboration between Procter & Gamble and researchers at Physical Chemistry: "Last year's IRI list included Tide Total Care, a premium version of its Tide detergent, which was number two by sales on IRl's 2009 top 10 nonfood products launch list. It was developed with external research from Sweden's University of Lund and from two small chemical companies." (IRI = the Industrial Research Institute.) The research collaboration concerns polymer-surfactant deposition at solid surfaces, and the article emphasizes the importance of external collaborations for new products development at Procter & Gamble.

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January, 2011:  Two articles from researchers at Physical Chemistry have been identified by the journal Soft Matter as “hot articles” and have been highlighted on their blog:
“Phase diagrams come alive: understanding how to create, destroy or change ordered surfactant structures by polymerizing the counterions”, Salomé dos Santos, Lennart Piculell, Ola J. Karlsson and Maria da Graça Miguel,  Soft Matter, 2011
“Phase separation and dynamical arrest for particles interacting with mixed potentials - the case of globular proteins revisited”, Thomas Gibaud, Frédéric Cardinaux, Johan Bergenholtz, Anna Stradner and Peter Schurtenberger,  Soft Matter, 2011

November 24-26 2010:  Molecular Processes at Solid Surfaces
10th ASCS, Kårhuset, Lund.

October, 2010: 
Professor Peter Schurtenberger has been  recruited to the Division of Physical Chemistry. Peter’s scientific interests are focused on the use of light scattering, X-ray scattering and neutron scattering in the study of soft materials and colloids. He will as a consequence be an important actor in building the scientific activities related to ESS and MAX IV. Peter arrives in October with several co-workers and a large set of advanced scientific equipment. Recruiting Peter Schuretenberger to Lund is a part of the efforts to further strengthen the vital development of the research at the Department of Chemistry at Lund University. More information 

September, 2010: OMM warmly welcome 4 new senior members; Prof Peter Schurtenberger, Prof Anna Stradner, Ass Prof Marie Skepö and Ass Prof Malin Zackrisson.

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