{"id":240714,"date":"2026-07-13T03:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-method-brings-single-particle-quality-control-to-nanocrystal-manufacturing"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:03:37","slug":"new-method-brings-single-particle-quality-control-to-nanocrystal-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-method-brings-single-particle-quality-control-to-nanocrystal-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"New method brings single-particle quality control to nanocrystal manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-brings-single-particle-quality-control-to-nanocrystal-manufacturing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanocrystals are already used in millions of devices, including televisions, laptops and displays, and are considered key materials for the next generation of quantum, sensing and solar technologies. However, they have not yet fully realized their potential. One major reason is their inherent heterogeneity: A single solution contains billions of nanocrystals whose properties can differ substantially. Although these particles can be characterized, important quality parameters are typically accessible only as average values across the entire sample.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor their function in devices, these average values are insufficient,\u201d says Professor Emiliano Cort\u00e9s, who conducts research at LMU\u2019s Nano-Institute. \u201cEach individual nanoparticle can behave differently\u2014for example, in its size or in how efficiently it emits light, meaning how effectively it converts absorbed energy back into light.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanocrystals are already used in millions of devices, including televisions, laptops and displays, and are considered key materials for the next generation of quantum, sensing and solar technologies. However, they have not yet fully realized their potential. One major reason is their inherent heterogeneity: A single solution contains billions of nanocrystals whose properties can differ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}