Electrons are chaotic and show duality, so they don’t typically behave in an orderly way.

A promising route for quantum dot solar cells is a semiconductor ink with the goal of enabling the coating of large areas of solar cell substrates in a single deposition step and thereby eliminating ...

Recent advances in chemistry have resulted in the preparation of monolayer-protected, high-quality, monodispersed, crystalline quantum dots as small as 2nm in diameter, which can be conveniently ...

The Manchester team used electron-beam lithography and isotropic dry etching to make the quantum dot, the leads and the gate electrodes — all from the same sheet of graphene. Just as the current ...

This time, the scientists placed graphene quantum dots into a controlled environment. These graphene dots are nanoscale materials made by arranging a single layer of graphene—which, like ...

From proton therapy firsts to tumour-killing quantum dots, Tami Freeman shares her pick of this year’s healthcare innovations ...

Scientists have observed a unique particle that moves easily one way, yet resists at 90 degrees. These semi-Dirac fermions were observed using their energy signature in a topological metal. Particles ...