Yekimov Aleksei Ivanovich

Yekimov Aleksei Ivanovich

Education

Yekimov graduated from Leningrad State University in 1967, defended his thesis in 1989 and received a doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences.

Biography

2023: Winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in October 2023 was awarded to a scientist from Russia Alexei Yekimov, Americans Munga Bavendi and Louis Bruce. They won the award for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

These tiny components of nanotechnology [quantum dots] now spread light from televisions and LED lamps, and, among other things, can help surgeons remove tumor tissue, follows from a press release on the award website.

Three scientists receive a prize for the discovery of quantum dots

As the head of the Department of Solid State Physics of St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) Sergei Verbin explained to TASS, quantum dots created by Yekimov and his partners are a new class of nanocjects, which is rightly called "artificial atoms." Like natural atoms, they have a discrete energy spectrum, but unlike natural atoms, this spectrum can be controlled in the process of creating quantum dots, achieving the results required for researchers and manufacturers. Therefore, since the end of the last century, fundamental research on quantum dots and their applied use have begun to develop intensively throughout the world. According to the specialist, quantum dots are already widely used in a variety of fields - from biomedicine to opto- and nanoelectronics.

It is thanks to the ability to directionally manage their properties that, apparently, is still the beginning of an increasingly wider future of their use, the boundaries of which are hardly possible to predict now, "he said.

By October 2023, Yekimov works for Nanocrystals Technology. Before him, the only scientist from the USSR or Russia who received a Nobel Prize in chemistry was Nikolai Semenov, who was awarded in 1956 "for research in the field of the mechanism of chemical reactions."^[1]

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