Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles

Imagine a nanocrystal so minuscule that it behaves like an atom. Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a category of such minute marvels, now known as “quantum dots,” and for developing a precise method of synthesizing them. Quantum dots are already playing important roles in electronics and in biomedicine…

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