{"id":1189206,"date":"2023-10-05T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189206"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:00:57","slug":"nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-to-trio-of-quantum-dot-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189206","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to trio of quantum dot researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) has chosen<\/a> its 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, and they\u2019re all about quantum dots. The three researchers \u2014 Alexei I. Ekimov, Louis E. Brus and Moungi G. Bawendi \u2014 will share the honors for their contributions to nanotechnology.<\/p>\n

Although quantum dots had been proposed theoretically earlier in the 20th century, this year\u2019s trio of Nobel winners began verifying them experimentally. The nanoscale semiconductor particles exhibit quantum mechanical properties, glowing in different colors when exposed to light. \u201cQuantum dots have many fascinating and unusual properties. Importantly, they have different colours depending on their size,\u201d wrote Johan \u00c5qvist, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, in a press release. The smaller the dot, the bluer its light is; the bigger the dot, the redder its light is. By changing their size, researchers can tune their colors, leading to various scientific advances.<\/p>\n

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The Nobel recipients\u2019 work with quantum dots has led to progress in display technology (like QLED TVs<\/a> and monitors<\/a>), medical and biological imaging<\/a>, solar cells<\/a>, drug delivery<\/a> and quantum computing<\/a> (among other things). Researchers\u2019 consensus is that we\u2019re still only scratching the surface of quantum dots\u2019 practical capabilities.<\/p>\n

Ekimov, a solid-state physicist, was the first to experimentally discover quantum dots when he synthesized them in colored glass in 1981. Meanwhile, Brus proved their size-dependent effects in particles floating freely in a fluid. In the following decade, Bawendi spearheaded breakthroughs in the nanoparticles\u2019 chemical production, leading to \u201calmost perfect particles,\u201d as the KVA\u2019s press release described.<\/p>\n

The three honorees will split (evenly) a prize of 11 million Swedish krona (US$998,515).<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-to-trio-of-quantum-dot-researchers-170057741.html?src=rss
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) has chosen its 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, and they\u2019re all about quantum dots. The three researchers \u2014 Alexei I. Ekimov, Louis E. Brus and Moungi G. Bawendi \u2014 will share the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1189206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}