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We're one of the largest producers in the world of some of the smallest man made objects. Quantum dots are these super tiny bits of material, vanishingly small. It's kind of hard to fathom exactly how small they are. A golf ball sitting on the earth is like a quantum dot sitting on a golf ball. And when you get materials at that size scale, quantum effects start to dominate their properties. And these materials have very high fluorescence, so we can shift the color of light to make any process where lights being absorbed or converted more effective. I'm Hunter McDaniel, founder and CEO of Ubiquity. Perhaps one of the most exciting applications is in agriculture. We have a line of greenhouse products that are shifting the color of sunlight to make plants grow more effectively. So by shifting the color of sunlight to the red, you can make plants grow up to 30% faster. And then solar energy is a rapidly growing opportunity for us doing the same sort of thing. By shifting the color of sunlight, we can make a solar panel work more effectively as well. So they're effective at emitting light, and then we can tune the color of light that they emit by changing the size of the particles. We are today the only quantum dot manufacturing company in the United States. We don't want to disrupt the supply chain, we want to partner with it. And so we work hard to make sure our materials can drop into existing manufacturing processes and be handled the same way as any other sort of compounded polymer could be utilized as an additive. So we're taking this nanotechnology into a new regime of mass production. Now that we've developed a safer, lower cost version of the quantum dot technology, it would be much more widely used and hence ubiquitous. Meaning literally everywhere. Possibilities are literally limitless. Anytime light is being utilized, absorbed, converted, reflected, we can probably make it more efficient and kind of just make it look cooler.