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Super material will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable
With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled.
Environmental technology in megacities
The environmental situation is critical in many of the world's megacities. A research project at Linköping University will examine how new environmental technologies can be spread to these cities, especially Cairo and Mexico City.
Breakthrough for the super material graphene
The hyper-quick electronics of the future will require new materials and the hottest around is graphene - a single layer of carbon atoms. Graphene produced using a method developed at Linköping University is now being used as part of a study at Chalmers University of Technology, where it has been shown that graphene maintains the same high quality as silicon, thus paving the way for large-scale production.
Difficult for children to make their voices heard in asylum interviews
Young asylum seekers find it hard to make themselves heard and freely talk about their grounds for asylum during the asylum interviews.
Measuring empathy
Empathising with people from other cultures is important for both everyday and professional life. Ethno-cultural empathy has been measured in students on various health related courses and training programmes for the first time ever.
Joint initiative on Biomimetic Sensing
The Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science is an international venture where scientists from the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria, Linköping University (LiU), Sweden and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore join forces to develop the next generation of biosensors.
How plants regulate their photosynthesis
The question of how plant photosynthesis is adapted to fluctuations in climate is a controversial one. Researchers at Linköping University are now able to show how plants regulate the process by modifying proteins in the cells.
Senior lecturer writes book on IT development
Only one in three IT projects around the world actually succeed, according to a rapport by American Standish Group. Lars Taxén, guest lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN), describes in his new book an alternative way to manage large and complex development projects.
The art of car mechanics
Today’s cars are full of functions making them more environmentally friendly, safe and comfortable. However, all these improvements have also made it harder to find the fault when something does go wrong. One efficient solution is a system for diagnosis based on probabilities
€ 630,000 for public transport research
Jane Summerton, professor at LiU and at VTI, has received €630,000 from VINNOVA for a research project on successful Nordic public transport.
LiU climate researchers at Copenhagen summit
Over twenty climate researchers from the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR, at LiU are present at the international climate summit in Copenhagen, 7-18 December.
LiU receives funding for Working Life and Social Research
Projects with a focus on Internet and computer-based support were popular when the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) distributed €1,45 million for research in the areas of working life and quality of life. The biggest winners were LiU’s hearing researchers, who received €800,000.
3 million Euros for Culture Studies
Tema Q: Culture Studies has received close to 3 million Euros from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme to conduct three years of research on the role of national museums in shaping national identity politics in Europe.
Didactic network headed by LiU researcher
Jonte Bernhard, docent at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN), has been awarded a grant from NordForsk to coordinate the research network, Nordic Network for Engineering Education Research.
