Quantum Dots
Storing medical information below the skin’s surface
Quantum Dots
Discovered in the 1980s. They display unique electronic properties.
Video Quantum Dots , what are they? How they work and what their Applications?
Video: Quantum dots, lecture
Dec. 2019: Storing medical information below the skin’s surface (see video on tab above)
Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history. - This new technology uses nano-crystal dyes called quantum microdots. This pattern of dye contains data, signifying that a vaccine has been received into the person’s body. This pattern of dye is embedded under the skin as a vaccine is injected into the human recipient. The dots are 4 nano-meters in diameter and are encapsulated in a spherical arrangement of bio-compatible micro-particles that are 20 microns in diameter. This arrangement allows the dye to remain fixed in place under the skin upon injection.
This “mark of vaccine submission” emits near infrared light that is invisible to the eye but can be detected and scanned by a specially-equipped smartphone. The microdot pattern could additionally contain information on the lot number of the vaccine batch, the date of vaccine administration, and other unique health information. It lasts about 5 years.