kinther@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoImpossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degreeswww.fastcompany.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down111cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 months agoWe can make materials as thin as one atom. It’s just very expensive.
minus-squareiknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·6 months agoCan’t you make one atom thin sheets of carbon with a pencil and tape?
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoYes, you can, but your sheet will be very small. If you want to make a sheet large enough to make a shirt, things get ridiculously expensive.
minus-squarerobotica@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoYeah but he was being pedantic over the word “impossibly”. If we can make 1 atom thin sheets, then it’s not impossible, right?
We can make materials as thin as one atom. It’s just very expensive.
Can’t you make one atom thin sheets of carbon with a pencil and tape?
Yes, you can, but your sheet will be very small. If you want to make a sheet large enough to make a shirt, things get ridiculously expensive.
Yeah but he was being pedantic over the word “impossibly”. If we can make 1 atom thin sheets, then it’s not impossible, right?