Abstract
A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Fall 2021 meeting by 2021 Priestley Medal winner A. Paul Alivisatos—the executive vice chancellor and provost, the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Here I will share with you a glimpse into the beauty of a type of object that is too small to see and yet provides illumination in a palette of colors every bit as rich as those we can experience in nature. I speak of nanocrystals, a type of material consisting of the regular spatial arrangements of a small number of atoms. The number is so small that a person just might be able to count them and track the atoms. Let’s say between hundreds and some tens of thousands of them. Creating nanocrystals, shaping them, learning
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