How to Make Quantum Dots

Charli Dvoracek, a graduate student in Peter Searson's lab at the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) shows us how to make Cadmium Selenide semiconductor nanocrystals, which are better known as quantum dots. These nanoparticles could be used in a wide range of products from cancer tests to solar cells.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chemistry
• inorganic chemistry
• materials chemistry
• materials synthesis
• quantum dots
• CdSe
• semiconductor nanocrystals

[MackTuesday]

Cute female scientists are the most awesomest creatures ever.

[leeteevee]

2:11 o_o

[HamzaaAbu]

Thanks Charli! I understand you use CdSe quantum dots to bind with and to identify cancerous cells.

I would like to learn the process of assembling quantum dots with mesoscopic TiO2 nanoparticle films for harvesting light and improving photon to charge carrier generation in solar cells.

Could you provide me any pointers like video links or online information. Thanks!

[TheNeochemist]

Thank you Charli Dvoracek for that great quantum dot video among all others to date, it is quite informative instead of flaunting, as some others is!

[jose2012rodriguez]

Its a bong!!! :D

[TheBrokenSaint]

@unchellmatt this! Oh god we are all in danger.

[niclasbech]

@sonicase

proteins are biologically active, nanodots are not.

thats my understanding anyway

[KillerXtreme88]

She's had a lot of practice with that mechanical stimulation..

[sonicase]

hmm what's the advantage of quantum dot over a flourescent protein attached to an antibody

[voroignis]

She can mechanically stimulate me any time! HEY-OHHH!!

[unchellmatt]

If she ever realizes just how adorable she is, the ease with which she could over throw civilization would be staggering. Geek chicks + handy with dangerous chemicals = SWEET JEEBUS, yes please!

[sonec90]

2:19

You shake that up. Give it that mechanical stimulation.