Putting the ‘Q’ in QLEDs: Where Quantum Dots Are Made

I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’m fascinated by quantum dots, the microscopic particles that help make your TV brighter and more colorful. And I understand, on a macro scale, how such things exist, but what would I really be able to see in a factory that makes them? What kind of vast cauldrons of science would be bubbling? What fires would be burning? Would there be three scientists double, double toil-and-troubling? I wanted to find out. 

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