There’s an article on the Science Daily website entitled “Discovery of Two-Dimensional Fabric Denotes Dawn Of New Materials Era”.
The only problem is, the fabric is not two-dimensional, and a science site should know better.
Researchers at The University of Manchester and Chernogolovka, Russia have discovered the world’s first single-atom-thick fabric, which reveals the existence of a new class of materials and may lead to computers made from a single molecule. The research is to be published in Science on 22 October.
Right there in the first sentence, they blow the headline to bits: anything that has a thickness — whether it’s one atom or billions — is not two-dimensional. A two-dimensional object would have width and height, but absolutely no depth.
Just being pedantic, that’s all.
