Researher Anders Lundblad has studied fuel cells for more than 15 years at the CHE school. In 2005 he founded MyFC.

Researcher Anders Lundblad, who has studied fuel cells for more than 15 years at the CHE school and is now running the company MyFC,  has developed a cell phone charger that is activated by water.
 

-One can say that the charger MyFC PowerTrekk is driven by water, air and a fuel puck. It doesn't even has to be clean water, water from a lake will for instance do the job, says Anders Lundblad.

The basic idea for the fuel cell was developed in a research project at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology in co-operation with S3 at KTH. Anders has then chosen to bring the concept and start a company, where of course the product has developed further.

Eva Malmström-Jonsson

Small particles loaded with medicine could be a future weapon for cancer treatment. A recently-published study shows how nanoparticles can be formed to efficiently carry cancer drugs to tumor cells. And because the particles can be seen in MRI images, they are traceable.

Both therapeutic and diagnostic in function, the so-called “theranostic” particles were developed by a team including KTH Professor Eva Malmström-Jonsson, from the School of Chemical Science, as well as researchers at Sweden’s Chalmer’s University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Malmström-Jonsson says that the particles, which the team developed for breast cancer treatment, are biodegradable and non-toxic. Their research was published in the science journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization.

Jennie Berglund, Kemiteknolog

Jennie Berglund, student vid Macromolecular Materials masterprogram har fått ett stipuendium på $ 40 000 från The Brittingham Viking Organization för studier vid University of Wisconsin-Madison i USA. Stipendiet räcker till ett helårsstudier vid det amerikanska universitetet.

Grattis, Jennie!

During 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) launched the program Gold for Gold for the British researchers that, according to Britain's Open Access policy, will publish their scientific results Open Access.

From 2013, the program has expanded and applies to all the international researchers whose institutions subscribe to the RSC journals.

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