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Laboratory flasks are used for explanation during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Alexei I. Ekimov, Louis E. Brus, and Moungi G. Bawendi have been awarded the 2023 Nobel…
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Most common everyday use of quantum dots is probably in “QLED” televisions (Representational) Paris: Quantum dots are tiny crystals that scientists can tune to different colours, giving an extra-vivid pop to next-generation TV screens or illuminating tumours inside bodies so surgeons can hunt them down. Three scientists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for…
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Left to right: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov. | Photo Credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Alexei Ekimov, Louis Brus, and Moungi Bawendi for their work on quantum dots – very small crystals with peculiar properties that have found application in a variety of…
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Information technology (IT) has become essential to communication, banking, business, health, education, entertainment, and many other walks of our lives. Its prevalence makes us wonder if society can survive without it. IT relies on gadgets that store and process vast amounts of information at humanly impossible speeds. Gate in computing A bit is the smallest…
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