(Nanowerk Spotlight) Harnessing the power of the sun to replace the use of fossil fuels holds tremendous promise. One way to do this is through the use of solar, or photovoltaic, cells. Large-scale ...

Paris (AFP) – Quantum dots are tiny crystals that scientists can tune to different colours, giving an extra-vivid pop to next-generation TV screens or illuminating tumours inside bodies so surgeons ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots – semiconductor ...

Warren Chan helped invent a research field and then watched it nearly die. The chemist and biomedical engineer at the University of Toronto specializes in quantum dots, tiny semiconductor particles ...