Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots. Quantum dots are tiny particles with unique optical and electrical properties.
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the chemistry prize for their work on quantum dots, the Nobel Prize Committee announced Wednesday. Quantum dots are semiconductor particles just a few nanometers in size. They are used in everything from TV screens to medical imaging.
Bawendi is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Louis Brus is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University. Ekimov, a Russian physicist, works for Nanocrystals Technology, according to the Nobel Committee.
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