Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging

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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.

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Cam someone ELI5?

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot

I love how this reads like someone just said "they're different because QUANTUM :tm:"

A Qbit you say? Just a bit but quantum 🤷‍♂️

It's bordering on "Quantum Fruitloopery", as New Scientist used to call it!

If I have time later, I might dig up some papers and expand the page so it doesn't read like a new-age wiki.

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.