Reacción a "Reactions: Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov for discovering quantum dots"

I value it very positively for materials scientists because it is a Nobel Prize that focuses on new materials that do not exist in nature and in which we design the properties. Each material has its own properties. We make these materials very small, in the form of quantum dots. By controlling, for example, their size, we control the light they emit, i.e. we control their properties. We make materials to size and this has opened the way for many other materials: quantum dots, nanowires, nanoplatelets.... A world in itself where we have very perfect crystals, very small crystals that allow us to make them with that degree of perfection, to improve their properties.  

With surface control we can take advantage of the properties of these materials. For example, they emit very good light and color-controlled light and that is why quantum dots are now used in televisions, because they improve the quality of the devices that were there until now. 

Basically the main interest is that it has opened up a new field in which there is a lot of science because they are tailor-made materials.