Becoming a Nobel laureate: Louis Brus on his discovery of quantum dots – podcast

By Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation

Imagine a particle so small that it’s the same relative size to a football as that ball is to the planet Earth. That’s the size of a quantum dot – a type of nanocrystal that changes colour depending on its size, and was once thought impossible to actually produce.

Today, they’re found in some high-definition television and computer screens, and are used in medicine to map what’s happening in cells and even tumours. And…

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