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.
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.
Aarrodri@mujico.org 1 year ago
Cam someone ELI5?
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love how this reads like someone just said “they’re different because QUANTUM :tm:”
Nutteman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dot
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
smol dot