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Nature 622, 227-228 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03048-9
Additional reporting by Miryam Naddaf.
Updates & Corrections
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Correction 10 October 2023: An earlier version of this story misstated when Louis Brus described making quantum dots in a solution.
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