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Apr 8, 2025, 13:35

E. Shyam P. Reddy: Moungi Bawendi on synthesis of quantum dots

E. Shyam P. Reddy, Professor and Director of Cancer Biology Program at Morehouse School of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Even for 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry co-laureate Moungi Bawendi, “science is hard” and sometimes involves repeatedly banging your head against the wall.

Last Thursday, Bawendi, a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered the 2025 John Howard Appleton Lecture organized by the Chemistry Department. In the lecture, Bawendi discussed his work in the synthesis of quantum dots, for which he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Sixteen Appleton lecturers have been Nobel laureates, according to Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair Lai-Sheng Wang in the lecture’s opening remarks.

According to Bawendi, “a quantum dot is a nanometer-sized crystal of semiconductor.” In his talk, he explained how electrons’ wave-particle duality — the quantum mechanical phenomenon in which electrons operate as both waves and particles — allows nanoparticles to release energy in the form of visible fluorescent light after excitement.”

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