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
Cam someone ELI5?
PeachMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot
tdawg@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
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
Dot
PeachMan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
smol dot
Nutteman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Teeny boys
profdc9@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 2y
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
Cadmium eggs are my favorite Easter candy
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
More like cadmi-YUM, amiright??