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Nice seeing them have what appear to be actual solutions of quantum dots in volumetric flasks, right on the panel's table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpph2cHx6gk&ab_channel=Nobel...

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It's funny because it looks exactly like something you'd see in a stock photo of "chemistry."

The usual reaction to that being "chemistry isn't flasks of brightly colored liquids, what are you doing?" But in this case it's finally appropriate.

It looks like a stock photo, but colors that bright and pure at room temperature is not typical of a chemistry lab! They are quite lovely, IMHO, I absolutely love the spectral purity and brightness.

It depends a lot on what kind of chemistry lab one works in. Having worked at in fluorescence microscopy in my MSc, then at Canada's Nanotechnology Research Centre & at Xerox's Research Centre in Mississauga, and later working with liquid crystals at TU Eindhoven I've had the joy of seeing some incredible colour in the lab. There's so much information which can be encoded spectroscopically, which is one reason why nanoparticles make for such useful probes.

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