In nature, tiny crystals known as nanocrystals are formed slowly over many years. Rocks and minerals react with air, water, and carbon dioxide in a process called chemical weathering. These reactions ...

Devices that can confine individual electrons are potential building blocks for quantum information systems. But the electrons must be protected from external disturbances. RIKEN researchers have now ...

A manufacturing technology to create quantum dots, a key quantum material, in desired structures and sizes on a substrate is ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has developed stable and efficient chalcogenide-based photoelectrodes, addressing a ...

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that exhibit unique optical characteristics due to quantum confinement effects, which result in discrete electronic states and size-tunable emission ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum dot technology, significantly raising this technology's ability to convert light into energy or chemical products. “Our work demonstrates how purely ...

Green Science Alliance has added a surprising new entry to the list of materials derived from plastic waste — quantum dots. The Japanese advanced materials startup announced the breakthrough this week ...