Professor Louis Brus of Columbia College tells Nature Nanotechnology about his first encounter with the world of colloidal quantum dots, the start of a journey that has earned him this 12 months’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry (along with Aleksey Yekimov and Moungi Bawendi). He additionally affords insightful recommendation to younger scientists alongside the way in which.
I’d like to begin along with your motivation in pursuing the type of measurements you have been doing earlier than you found the dimensions impact in quantum dots. What have been you finding out in 1982 once you first noticed some anomalous behaviour within the absorption spectra of your colloids?
