Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of “quantum dots”, tiny nanoparticles with many applications in electronics ranging from display screens to medical technology.
Moungi Bawendi from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis Brus of New York’s Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology, a small US tech company, share the SKr11mn ($1mn) prize.
Quantum dots are semiconductor materials a few nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) wide whose properties, particularly their colour, are influenced by their extremely small size.
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