{"id":238415,"date":"2026-06-05T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ultrathin-nanotubes-reach-1-nanometer-opening-path-to-smaller-electronics"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:07:49","slug":"ultrathin-nanotubes-reach-1-nanometer-opening-path-to-smaller-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ultrathin-nanotubes-reach-1-nanometer-opening-path-to-smaller-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin nanotubes reach 1 nanometer, opening path to smaller electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-nanotubes-reach-1-nanometer-opening-path-to-smaller-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Japan have created some of the world\u2019s smallest semiconducting nanotubes, structures 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. By growing molybdenum disulfide inside protective tubes of boron nitride, the researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, produced highly uniform tubes just 1 nanometer wide, a scale at which it\u2019s difficult to make stable nanotube structures. The work confirms decades-old theoretical predictions about how these ultrafine materials behave and could also provide a new route toward miniaturized electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aee3446\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, carbon nanotubes were attracting a lot of press attention. But there\u2019s a new contender in the ring, and it offers some advantages over its carbon counterpart that could tempt engineers to design products around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Japan have created some of the world\u2019s smallest semiconducting nanotubes, structures 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. By growing molybdenum disulfide inside protective tubes of boron nitride, the researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, produced highly uniform tubes just 1 nanometer wide, a scale at which it\u2019s difficult to make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238415","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=238415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}