So the leak was correct! [1]<p>But it is nice that development in quantum dots finally gets its share.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nobel-chemistry-prize-winners-names-leaked-hours-before-announcment-report-4448487" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nobel-chemistry-prize-winner...</a>
A quantum dot is like a prism made of electrons; the sizes can be adjusted so that the color emitted is different and their properties of semiconducting and so on are drastically different. “The discovery here is for actually purifying quantum effects to actually become materials you can touch.”
Nice seeing them have what appear to be actual solutions of quantum dots in volumetric flasks, right on the panel's table.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=NobelPrize">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=Nobel...</a>
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
> quantum dots are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size, having optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles as a result of quantum mechanical effects (wikipedia)<p>why chemistry and not physics? how do they draw the line?
Anyone knows more about this "Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York" company from Ekimov? I did a quick google search but could not find anything.