The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was just awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov for discovering and creating ”quantum dots.” Here’s what that means and why it’s such a big deal…
Quantum dots are useful for a lot of things: In medicine as fluorescent cancer markers, in solar cells to increase efficiency, in communication to do secure encryption… you might have even seen them in a TV to enhance color!
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