{"id":174294,"date":"2023-10-16T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/move-over-carbon-the-nanotube-family-just-got-bigger"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:22:53","slug":"move-over-carbon-the-nanotube-family-just-got-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/move-over-carbon-the-nanotube-family-just-got-bigger","title":{"rendered":"Move over carbon, the nanotube family just got bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/move-over-carbon-the-nanotube-family-just-got-bigger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a range of new single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes with different compositions, chirality, and diameters by templating off boron-nitride nanotubes. They also realized ultra-thin nanotubes grown inside the template, and successfully tailored compositions to create a family of new nanotubes. The ability to synthesize a diverse range of structures offers unique insights into their growth mechanism and novel optical properties.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202306631\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+nanotube\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon nanotube<\/a> is a wonder of nanotechnology. Made by rolling up an atomically thin sheet of carbon atoms, it has exceptional mechanical strength and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+conductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical conductivity<\/a> among a range of other exotic optoelectronic properties, with potential applications in semiconductors beyond the silicon age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a range of new single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes with different compositions, chirality, and diameters by templating off boron-nitride nanotubes. They also realized ultra-thin nanotubes grown inside the template, and successfully tailored compositions to create a family of new nanotubes. The ability to synthesize a diverse range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174294","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}