Earlier on Wednesday, the academy appeared to have inadvertently published the names of the three scientists it said had won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Nanoparticles and quantum dots are used in LED-lights and TV-screens and can also be used to guide surgeons while removing cancer tissue.
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," the award-giving body said on Wednesday.
The third of this year's crop of awards, the chemistry Nobel follows those for medicine and physics announced earlier this week.
While the chemistry awards are sometimes overshadowed by the physics prize and its famous winners such as Albert Einstein, chemistry laureates include many scientific greats, including radioactivity pioneer Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie, who also won the physics prize.
Persons:
Moungi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov, Moungi Bawendi, Bawendi, Brus, Ekimov, Alfred Nobel, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless
Organizations:
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Columbia University, Nanocrystals Technology, AT, Bell Labs, U.S, Vavilov, Optical Institute, Nanocrystals Technology Inc
Locations:
Russian, Stockholm, Paris, France, Tunisia, Soviet Union, United States, Swedish