{"id":239329,"date":"2026-06-19T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/news-worlds-smallest-semiconductor-nanotube-achieved-at-1-nanometer"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:12:30","slug":"news-worlds-smallest-semiconductor-nanotube-achieved-at-1-nanometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/news-worlds-smallest-semiconductor-nanotube-achieved-at-1-nanometer","title":{"rendered":"[News] World\u2019s Smallest Semiconductor Nanotube Achieved at 1 Nanometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/news-worlds-smallest-semiconductor-nanotube-achieved-at-1-nanometer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the The University of Tokyo has fabricated the world\u2019s smallest semiconductor nanotube, according to a study published in the latest issue of Science. Using boron nitride (BN) nanotubes as a template, the researchers successfully synthesized single-walled molybdenum disulfide (MoS\u2082) nanotubes with a diameter of just 1 nanometer\u2014roughly one hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement not only validates theoretical predictions about the electronic properties of ultrafine materials made decades ago, but also opens new possibilities for the development of next-generation miniaturized electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon nanotubes have long attracted attention for their exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. However, slight variations in their atomic structure can significantly alter their conductivity, posing challenges for transistor applications. In contrast, MoS\u2082 is an intrinsically semiconducting material with promising potential for semiconductor electronics, high-sensitivity sensing, and quantum-scale physics research. Yet producing ultrathin, structurally controlled MoS\u2082 nanotubes has remained a major challenge, as stability and fabrication complexity increase dramatically as nanotube diameters shrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by the The University of Tokyo has fabricated the world\u2019s smallest semiconductor nanotube, according to a study published in the latest issue of Science. Using boron nitride (BN) nanotubes as a template, the researchers successfully synthesized single-walled molybdenum disulfide (MoS\u2082) nanotubes with a diameter of just 1 nanometer\u2014roughly one hundred-thousandth the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239329","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}