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Kiona Smith

The Untold Story of How The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Made Its Way Into Modern QLED Screens

— JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images

The first people to make and use quantum dots were glassmakers. Working thousands of years ago, they realized that the same chemical mixture could turn glass into different colors, depending on how they heated it.

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