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Were you referring to bank of America or some other stock?
Oh my really, I thought it was go down to 323?
Are you sure about this article I know a talent from god that says otherwise.
Where"s the talent from god when you need him?
Can't wait for qtmm to be this humvee.
http://www.break.com/index/humvee_driving_in_iraqi_traffic.html
Darn they have paints that don't require a primer.
Please Elaborate!
Oh my a 10% Loss on a 1000 sold shares.
If someone would sell 50 k of this it would go down in the triple zeros
Until now anything said seems like fortune telling
Hope your right
Ih8aloss you made me think of something.
I was at a big hardware store like over 6 months ago and was wondering why they did not have in stock a LED light that replaced costly halogen bulbs. I'm sure it has to do with politics. Same goes here, at this rate it might take several years before the end product whatever it is reaches the consumer level. Seems like we are accepting led in the mainstrean in 2011. How m,any years was led available? How many years are quantum dots available?
I just realized it seems like its apple vs the world.
Not fair they are outnumbered! Every other company wants a piece of the Apple. I think any bite they take won't hurt these apples, there just too big.
OH NO, must of been some solar flare that reflected off Moneymaids
Talent from God. Or maybe it was just a bad batch of some illegal substance.
Apple To the Moon.
And for all you haters it's easy to point out others flaws. But tell me of another company that has steadily released groundbreaking products when others constantly said fail fail to every product they released? I remember myself seeing a tablet as a waste. I'm using my laptop less and less. It's laptops and traditional computer sellers manufacturers that should be afraid not Apple shareholders.
Amazon represents the other end of the spectrum. It sells Kindles at a loss, with prices below manufacturing costs. In an interview with Wired, CEO Jeff Bezos explains the essence of his business model: good one now how's that sustainable pffft.
Every other tablet will catch up to apple's iPad sooner or later.
But by then Apple will have their next must have gadget out.
Yes the stock is dropping, it's going back up if they keep business as usual and revenue profits. Christmas will go back to 400$. How many are considering another tablet but oh buts its not the real one.theres some severe branding in apples products which competitors are a few years away to try to immulate apple. By low sell high is happening in front of your eyes. Time to buy if it goes under 360.
Dude that's some ego you caught.
Haha amazing timing!
It's tasting finger licking good!
Cheers
IT's nice to smell but IT'S TIME TO TASTE.
Bad or good .
Let's start with 1$ dollar of revenue,
This is so bad why would it be translated its allready out there in english
Maybe take a look on alibaba.com you might need to order a minimum of 50 to ship.
Published online 10 June 2009 | Nature 459, 760-761 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459760a
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Quantum dots go large
A small industry could be on the verge of a boom, reports Katharine Sanderson.
Katharine Sanderson
There's gold at the end of this rainbow.X. GAO
Nanocrystals called quantum dots have promised to revolutionize display technologies, solar power and biological imaging for more than a decade. Yet the quantum-dot market has remained small, with a handful of companies selling dots directly to researchers, using the particles to develop their own products or licensing their technologies to partners.
"Quantum dots have been around for quite a while, but they're taking a really long time to mature," says David Hwang of the market-analysis company Lux Research in New York. A key barrier is price: quantum dots can cost anywhere from US$3,000 to $10,000 per gram, restricting their use to highly specialized applications.
But industry analysts are now predicting extremely rapid growth for the market over the next few years, driven by demand for energy-efficient displays and lighting, and enabled by cheaper, more efficient manufacturing processes. In September 2008, market-research company BCC Research of Wellesley, Massachusetts, predicted that the market for products relying on quantum dots would grow from $28.6 million in 2008 to $721 million by 2013, with particularly rapid growth in the optoelectronics sector from 2010 (see graph).
Dots by the kilo
Most commercially available quantum dots have a semiconductor core, often a mixture of cadmium and selenium, measuring about 2–10 nanometres in diameter. This core is surrounded by a shell, usually of another semiconductor material, and an outer polymer or inorganic layer.
The small size of the dots gives them unique properties. Photons hitting a dot excite an electron from the semiconductor material, leaving a positively charged 'hole': this electron–hole pair is called an exciton. In a bulk semiconductor, excitons can have a range of energies within a continuous band. But in the nanoscale dots, excitons occupy distinct, quantized energy states. This means that as each excited electron recombines with a hole, it emits a photon with a specific, predictable wavelength. Smaller dots give off blue light, whereas larger dots of the same material appear red.
Although quantum dots were initially made using expensive techniques borrowed from the computer-chip industry, most dots are currently made by 'wet' chemistry methods, such as squirting hot solutions of organometallic reagents into a solvent. But scaling up this technique — essential for reducing the cost of quantum dots — has been troublesome, because it is harder to maintain the right temperature in larger volumes.
Quantum-dot company Nanoco, based in Manchester, UK, may have an answer. The company, which was spun out of the group of chemist Paul O'Brien at the University of Manchester in 2004, has developed a lower-temperature batch process that uses small seed molecules to grow kilograms of dots from a solution of reagents. And Voxtel, based in Beaverton, Oregon, has begun trialling a continuous production process, which can manufacture kilogram quantities a week of most quantum dots for less than $10 per gram, according to chief executive George Williams.
SOURCE: BCC RESEARCH
The first commercial application of quantum dots took off in 2002, when the Californian nanotech startup Quantum Dot Corporation launched its first quantum dot bioimaging agent. Chemical groups attached to the outside of the dots can hook onto particular cells, for example, giving a useful glowing tag to track the cells' movement. Several different sizes of dots emitting various colours can be used to track multiple cellular processes at the same time.
Bioimaging could receive a boost from recent research that offers a solution to a long-standing yet poorly understood problem. Some quantum dots, particularly those prepared by wet chemistry, tend to blink on and off at random. Last month, Todd Krauss at the University of Rochester, New York, and his colleagues announced that they had managed to eliminate blinking by blending the boundary between a core of cadmium, selenium and zinc, and a shell composed of the latter two elements (X. Wang et al. Nature 459, 686–689; 2009). Krauss thinks that non-blinking particles may be a decade away from large-scale manufacture, and it is also unclear whether the discovery will apply to other quantum dots. But if it does, "the field will take a fairly substantial leap forward", he says.
Even though bioimaging generated plenty of business for quantum-dot developer Evident based in Troy, New York, the company is branching out into using its dots to fine-tune the colours of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The dots absorb a relatively wide range of wavelengths produced by the LED, while emitting light in a much narrower range, producing very specific colours. The company already sells decorative strings of quantum-dot LEDs in colours from cranberry to tangerine.
Meanwhile, Michael Edelman, Nanoco's chief executive, says that a backlight for flatscreen televisions that relies on the company's dots should be on the market in about 18 months. It will combine red, green and blue quantum-dot LEDs that are more efficient and emit less heat than conventional backlights, he says.
And QD Vision of Watertown, Massachusetts, is about to enter the commercial lighting market. The company was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 by five academics, including electrical engineer Seth Coe-Sullivan, who is now chief technology officer, and Moungi Bawendi, who helped to develop the wet-chemistry method of creating cadmium-based quantum dots (C. B. Murray, D. J. Norris and M. G. Bawendi J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 8706; 1993).
QD Vision teamed up with Nexxus Lighting in Charlotte, North Carolina, to produce quantum-dot LED lights suitable for commercial and domestic lighting. Unveiled in early May, the lights combine the efficiency of LED lighting with the warmer colour of incandescent bulbs, says Dan Button, chief executive of QD Vision. He hopes that the lights will provide an energy-efficient alternative to incandescent or halogen lamps, without producing the harsh white light of fluorescent bulbs and conventional LEDs, which often deters consumers. The company expects to begin shipping the lamps, which will cost between $50 and $100, by the end of this year.
This kind of collaboration is a common trend in the market, says Hwang. "A lot of these companies are leaning heavily on large corporations to do development and incorporate them into their products," he says.
Shining light
Solar power could also benefit from the tiny dots. Researchers are starting to use them in solar concentrators — flat plates that channel light from a large area and concentrate it onto a solar panel. Organic dyes have already been used in the concentrators to absorb and re-emit light, which then bounces through the plate until it hits a solar cell mounted on the edge.
But dyes are not good at harvesting the red light in sunlight and are prone to degradation over time. Quantum dots are more robust, can collect light from the far-red and ultra-violet ends of the spectrum, and are also better at capturing the diffuse light of cloudy days. But Amanda Chatten, who is developing solar concentrators at Imperial College London, says that she struggles to buy quantum dots that perform efficiently.
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And price is still a significant barrier. “At the moment, quantum dots are about a thousand times more expensive per gram than organic dyes,” says Chatten. For a commercially viable solar concentrator, she says that quantum-dot prices will need to drop by a factor of between 100 and 1,000.
Yet despite the global economic downturn, businesses are optimistic. On 1 May, Nanoco started trading on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and has seen its share price rise from £0.21 to £0.56 as of 8 June. Edelman says that the company is busy completing a new, large-scale production facility in Manchester, with a second plant planned in Asia. "If this market is going to take off," he says, "we'll need a lot of material."
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The problem that this industry will have in future is Cadmium itself used for biological and Lead used for solar power applications of nanoparticles! Due to the overall increase of environmental friendly production processes it is difficult to place that these heavy and toxic metals are used for the common run of mankind. The mentioned highly cited and recommended article of Bawendi and co-workers all started the increase in research of the mentioned topic but also started the development of non-pyrophoric precursors to replace alkyl-cadmium compounds in order to prevent the labs of burning to the ground, especially in scale-up syntheses. The practical problems are the photobrightening effect (Quantum Dots increase their quantum yield [QY] when excited to a synthesis process dependend maximum), blinking statistics (single molecule behavior, statistical on/off of the exciton recombination), any kind of defects and their role in non-radiative decay processes (decrease of QY), and last but not least the waste disposal and recycling of the mostly used toxic heavy metals. I am not surprised that the stock markets took that long to put the eyes on rarely available companies despite the fact that the QDot Corp. (now part of Invitrogen) released their first product about seven years ago. The owners of QDot travelled the world -even years before the product was released- and told anybody that this field of research is exhausted, without a complete basic research on any chemical or physical behavior. All the other researchers of this field were asked: "What are you still investigating? You can buy it!" But thats not an argument for a product as anyone knows. It was just glowing like a rainbow and everybody liked it without asking questions. Citation: "But Amanda Chatten, who is developing solar concentrators at Imperial College London, says that she struggles to buy quantum dots that perform efficiently." (q.e.d.)
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I'll buy you all a drink in that case ;)
Let's make it to 2012 and then see. Some stocks never split Microsoft is like under 40$. Let's show a positive cash flow of 1$. And let's not compare this to apple lol a long way to go for that.
God Bless!
Tv,s are probably part of answers. For example Sony predicting another year of losses, near the 1.1billions
Qdots are not going to save the tvs llol. Flat screen goldrush is 5 years ago. We need holographic tvs in 50+ inches to revive that segment! And the holographic tv will prob be in a wallmart 3-4 years they have small ones produced ATM they cost like 30g's for a 27 inch
I sincerely hope that's the case I just read posts from like 2 +years on this forum and seems like its been an old record repeating itself for years. Same group repeating news will come without having a clue of what's really going on. Oh yes it's a disruptive tech... Do my Dd .... People leave this board and the same few remain on a daily basis. I must be honest I.
Have my doubts but Yet I keep buying. If this is a play then someone did a greAt job. There's no activity on here for such a disruptive tech, why wouldn't mm and big playersbeinvolved in this from infancy?
There would be a lot more activity if we did friends and family members would all know about it
This is how how I found qtmm was looking for graphemes stocks hehe.....
Found my answer
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Saturday, October 02, 2010 3:24:58 PM
Re: FreeGrass post# 4072
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No, QMC India is not connected to QMC USA.
They are called quantum materials corporation also
Based in India
http://www.quantum-materials.in/about-us.php
Thanks for the post ddhawk.
If this pulls through there will be a lot of happy people.
Gita
Nice find is Dr J Representing this for Qmc let's hope so.....
Stealth mode in progress. This is part of the plan.
That's too easy to do. Did that on my initial purchases!
Thanks ddhawk . That's what I knew , thought there was another way....
Been trying go buy. 12000+ all week
A little under the ask
Please explain how is to buy this stock then?
Hi Denise,
I totally agree with you. The only news we been hearing is of other companies or pretty post of some nano/tech news by others on this board. If they havent made any sales they have very little to work with. So that answers why everything seems so behind on marketing/news/sales side. But on another note, selling qdots is not like selling toys at toys r us ( im not affiliated,,,) Clients are more on an industrial level. Maybe having a fancy up to date website is less important, hopefully thats the reason. Hey there still filing, and have an amazing crew. I have a good feeling about this, but thats not enough I had a good feeling once for a business that I pulled out of.... Glad I did. Bottom line is this cannot sustain with this kind of releases for much longer without any $$$.
How many years have some of you been waiting for news, I've lost count how long. Others have qdots http://www.invitrogen.com/search/global/searchAction.action?query=qdots&resultPage=1&resultsPerPage=15&x=0&y=0 and marketing them. QTMM might be superior different but please get them them out of the shop!
I hope my order goes through this week, after that wait and see.
Cheers.
Let's hope that qtmm dots dont get destroyed!
QMC probably needs millions of dollars in their hands right this second to really advance. Cant Bill Gates just help them out?