Russian chemist Alexei Ekimov one of three nanotechnology researchers honored by this year’s Nobel Prize

Russian chemist Alexei Ekimov one of three nanotechnology researchers honored by this year’s Nobel Prize

The Russian chemist Alexei Ekimov and his colleagues Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus, all of them working in the U.S., are the honorees of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The trio of scientists is being recognized for discovering and synthesizing quantum dots — “nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.” “A quantum dot,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences explains, “is a crystal that often consists of just a few t…