SellaTheChemist on Nostr: So the Nobel prize goes to the invention of quantum dots, tiny blobs of crystalline ...
So the Nobel prize goes to the invention of quantum dots, tiny blobs of crystalline matter right in the gray zone where molecular properties end and bulk matter begins. Crystal seeds. A place where quantum stuff turns your expectations, based on bulk matter, on their head. These guys devised methods to control the preparation of these things so that you could make "dots" of precise shapes and sizes. It's remarkable science that exploited Feynman's "room at the bottom."
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2023/press-release/Published at
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