{"id":168407,"date":"2023-07-26T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/characterizing-atomic-defects-in-2d-materials-to-determine-suitability-as-quantum-emitters"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:23:09","slug":"characterizing-atomic-defects-in-2d-materials-to-determine-suitability-as-quantum-emitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/characterizing-atomic-defects-in-2d-materials-to-determine-suitability-as-quantum-emitters","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing atomic defects in 2D materials to determine suitability as quantum emitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/characterizing-atomic-defects-in-2d-materials-to-determine-suitability-as-quantum-emitters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term molybdenum disulfide may sound familiar to some car drivers and mechanics. No wonder: the substance, discovered by U.S. chemist Alfred Sonntag in the 1940s, is still used today as a high-performance lubricant in engines and turbines, but also for bolts and screws.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to the special chemical structure of this solid, whose individual material layers are easily displaceable relative to one another. However, molybdenum disulfide (chemically MoS<sub>2<\/sub>) not only lubricates well, but it is also possible to exfoliate a single atomic layer of this material or to grow it synthetically on a wafer scale.<\/p>\n<p>The controlled isolation of a MoS<sub>2<\/sub> monolayer was achieved only a few years ago, but is already considered a materials science breakthrough with enormous technological potential. The Empa team now wants to work with precisely this class of materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term molybdenum disulfide may sound familiar to some car drivers and mechanics. No wonder: the substance, discovered by U.S. chemist Alfred Sonntag in the 1940s, is still used today as a high-performance lubricant in engines and turbines, but also for bolts and screws. This is due to the special chemical structure of this solid, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168407","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}