{"id":226990,"date":"2025-12-12T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/real-life-quantum-molycircuits-using-exotic-nanotubes"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:06:53","slug":"real-life-quantum-molycircuits-using-exotic-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/real-life-quantum-molycircuits-using-exotic-nanotubes","title":{"rendered":"Real-life \u2018quantum molycircuits\u2019 using exotic nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-quantum-molycircuits-using-exotic-nanotubes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molybdenum disulfide MoS<sub>2<\/sub> is a groundbreaking material for electronics applications. As a two-dimensional layer similar to graphene, it is an excellent semiconductor, and can even become intrinsically superconducting under the right conditions. It\u2019s not particularly surprising that science fiction authors have already been speculating about molycircs, fictional computer circuits built from MoS<sub>2<\/sub>, for years\u2014and that physicists and engineers are directing huge research efforts at this material.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Regensburg, have many years of expertise with diverse quantum materials\u2014in particular also with carbon nanotubes, tube-like macromolecules made from carbon atoms alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an obvious next step to now focus on MoS<sub>2<\/sub> and its fascinating properties,\u201d said Dr. Andreas K. H\u00fcttel, head of the research group Nanotube Electronics and Nanomechanics in Regensburg. In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Maja Rem\u0161kar, Jo\u017eef Stefan Institut Ljubljana, a specialist in the crystalline growth of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molybdenum+disulfide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molybdenum disulfide<\/a> nanomaterials, his research group started working on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum devices<\/a> based on MoS<sub>2<\/sub> nanotubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molybdenum disulfide MoS2 is a groundbreaking material for electronics applications. As a two-dimensional layer similar to graphene, it is an excellent semiconductor, and can even become intrinsically superconducting under the right conditions. It\u2019s not particularly surprising that science fiction authors have already been speculating about molycircs, fictional computer circuits built from MoS2, for years\u2014and that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226990","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}