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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for quantum dots, the tiny particles lighting up TV screens, LEDs, medical imaging and more. Three scientists are sharing the prize: Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov. Together, these scientists colored the future of nanoscience.
Credits:
Hosted by Elise Kim
Written and produced by Kerri Jansen
Edited by Darren Weaver, Elaine Seward and Janali Thompson
Fact-checked by Rigoberto Advincula and Samantha Jones
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Laureate illustrations by Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
Quantum dots synthesis illustration adapted from art by Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Papers shown:
“Quantum size effect in three-dimensional microscopic semiconductor crystals” (translated)
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
A. I. Ekimov; A. A. Onushchenko, 1981
“Quantum size effects in redox potentials, resonance Raman spectra, and electronic spectra of CdD crystallites in aqueous solution”
The Journal of Chemical Physics
R. Rossetti; S. Nakahara; L.E. Brus, 1983
DOI: 10.1063/1.445834
Additional images:
“Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals”
ACS Nano
DOI: 10.1021/nn506223h
“Quantum Dot-Based Dual-Color In Situ Fluorescence Imaging of the Coevolution of CD68 and CD47 in Breast Cancer”
ACS Applied Nano Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c03816
Additional video: Shutterstock, Storyblocks
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for quantum dots, the tiny particles lighting up TV screens, LEDs, medical imaging and more. Three scientists are sharing the prize: Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov. Together, these scientists colored the future of nanoscience.
Credits:
Hosted by Elise Kim
Written and produced by Kerri Jansen
Edited by Darren Weaver, Elaine Seward and Janali Thompson
Fact-checked by Rigoberto Advincula and Samantha Jones
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Laureate illustrations by Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
Quantum dots synthesis illustration adapted from art by Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Papers shown:
“Quantum size effect in three-dimensional microscopic semiconductor crystals” (translated)
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
A. I. Ekimov; A. A. Onushchenko, 1981
“Quantum size effects in redox potentials, resonance Raman spectra, and electronic spectra of CdD crystallites in aqueous solution”
The Journal of Chemical Physics
R. Rossetti; S. Nakahara; L.E. Brus, 1983
DOI: 10.1063/1.445834
Additional images:
“Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals”
ACS Nano
DOI: 10.1021/nn506223h
“Quantum Dot-Based Dual-Color In Situ Fluorescence Imaging of the Coevolution of CD68 and CD47 in Breast Cancer”
ACS Applied Nano Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c03816
Additional video: Shutterstock, Storyblocks
Produced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals, and scientific conferences.
Join the #AmericanChemicalSociety bit.ly/Join_ACS
