This Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the Frenchman. Moungi Bawendi, the American Louis E. Brus and the Russian Alexei Ekimov, for discovering and developing quantum dots, materials so tiny that they manifest the amazing laws that govern the world of the infinitely small: quantum mechanics. Quantum dots are nanocrystals, a few millionths of a millimeter in size, in which electrons are confined. These electron islands have interesting properties, useful in a multitude of fields, from television screens even medicine. It is an emerging field in the diagnosis and the experimental cancer treatment.
