2023 Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry: Aleksey Ekimov, Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi

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In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Aleksey Ekimov (Yekimov), Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi for their work in the 80s and early 90s of the last century, which became the foundation of the physics and technology of zero-dimensional structures, quantum dots. Quantum dots are crystals of semiconductors of nanometer size (nanocrystals), with the properties determined by the quantum size eff ect. Nowadays quantum dots are widely used in various areas as optoelectronics, photovoltaics, biology, and medicine, and their synthesis is constantly being improved.

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A. V Rodina

Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: anna.rodina@mail.ioffe.ru
Saint Petersburg, Russia

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