Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/04/europe/nobel-prize-chemistry-quantum-dots-bawendi-brus-ekimov-intl-scn

Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging::The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.

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Aarrodri@mujico.org · 8 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Cam someone ELI5?

PeachMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)
tdawg@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I love how this reads like someone just said "they're different because QUANTUM :tm:"

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y

It's bordering on "Quantum Fruitloopery", as New Scientist used to call it!

If I have time later, I might dig up some papers and expand the page so it doesn't read like a new-age wiki.

pazukaza@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

A Qbit you say? Just a bit but quantum 🤷‍♂️

Nutteman@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Dot

PeachMan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

smol dot

Nutteman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Teeny boys

profdc9@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I can not fathom how anyone could suggest that something made of cadmium should be used as a biological marker or anywhere in the human body.

workerONE@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cadmium eggs are my favorite Easter candy

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

More like cadmi-YUM, amiright??