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LiU exports urban sustainable development

Linköping University and Guangzhou University have opened the Urban Sustainable Development Research Center in Guangzhou, China. Three pilot projects with around 20 committed LiU researchers are already under way as part of the collaboration.

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Smart communication making the world smaller

The PhD students working in the 5GWireless programme come from all corners of the world. They are attracted by the opportunity of contributing to a generation change in the mobile traffic network from 4G to 5G, with thousands of times more traffic.

Sweden´s largest teaching prize etablished at LiU

Ingemar Ingemarsson, professor emeritus at LiU, has established a prize for “a person who is making, or who has made, a major contribution to education and its development at Linköping University, with a lasting effect on student learning.”

Graphene on silicon carbide can store energy

By introducing defects into the perfect surface of graphene on silicon carbide, researchers at LiU have increased the capacity of the material to store electrical charge. The finding stimulates ideas on how this ultrathin material might be used.

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A rose to store energy

A supercapacitor has been constructed in a plant for the first time. The plant, a rose, can be charged and discharged hundreds of times. This breakthrough is the result of research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Pilot study shows stable insulin production in type 1 diabetes

A small pilot study in which researchers attempted to slow attacks mounted by the immune system on insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetes has given promising results.

People with alcohol dependency lack important enzyme

A research group under the leadership of Professor Markus Heilig has identified an enzyme whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe when alcohol dependence develops.