{"id":124295,"date":"2021-06-26T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/are-mxenes-the-future-of-nanotechnology"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:23:09","slug":"are-mxenes-the-future-of-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/are-mxenes-the-future-of-nanotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Are MXenes the future of nanotechnology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-mxenes-the-future-of-nanotechnology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial kidneys, powerful batteries and efficient water purification are some of the future applications of a group of ultrathin materials known as MXenes. This opinion is expressed in an article in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, whose authors include one from Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n<p>Materials that have a cross-section as thin as one or a few layers of atoms possess unusual properties due to their thickness. These properties may be <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+electrical+conductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high electrical conductivity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+strength\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high strength<\/a> or an ability to withstand heat, giving <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ultrathin+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ultrathin materials<\/a> a great potential for use in future technology. The most well-known material is graphene, and the hunt for other ultrathin materials, also known as two-dimensional materials, has increased in intensity since its discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene and many other two-dimensional materials are either semiconductors, semimetals or polarized insulators. The lack of an ultrathin metal conductor is an obstacle in the development of components based exclusively on two-dimensional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial kidneys, powerful batteries and efficient water purification are some of the future applications of a group of ultrathin materials known as MXenes. This opinion is expressed in an article in the journal Science, whose authors include one from Link\u00f6ping University. Materials that have a cross-section as thin as one or a few layers of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}