Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging (edition.cnn.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 2023 20:00
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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 on 05 Oct 2023 01:47 next collapse

Cam someone ELI5?

Nutteman@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 02:02 next collapse

Dot

PeachMan@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 03:45 collapse

smol dot

Nutteman@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 16:52 collapse

Teeny boys

PeachMan@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 03:46 collapse

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot

tdawg@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 05:59 collapse

I love how this reads like someone just said “they’re different because QUANTUM :tm:”

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk on 05 Oct 2023 07:12 next collapse

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 on 05 Oct 2023 21:29 collapse

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

profdc9@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 02:24 collapse

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 on 05 Oct 2023 08:10 collapse

Cadmium eggs are my favorite Easter candy

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2023 14:33 collapse

More like cadmi-YUM, amiright??