Congratulations to Anna for her JACS paper!

Keeping colloidal quantum dots (QD) stable in a solvent is no small feat as the outer organic surface ligands are in equilibrium with free ligands in solution; perturbation of this equilibrium can lead to QD instability, degradation, coalescence, and inferior electronic and optical properties . Anna has shown that these outer ligands can be permanently locked onto a QD surface using a very thin alumina layer. This ligand locking strategy can improve many applications of QD including single particle studies, QD ink processing, use in display technology and solar cells, as well as in biomedical applications. You can read more here!