Quantum Dots Display Promise for Polymers

摘要

HOUSTON - Rice University scientists plan to employ the power of the sun to build functional synthetic polymers using photosensitive quantum dots - microscopic semiconducting particles - as a catalyst. The luminescent dots are only a few nanometers wide, but are highly tunable for their unique optical and electronic properties. They are beginning to show up in modern displays, but lend themselves to industrial chemistry as well.