Monomolecular blades

[Humabout]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

IIRC, the magic explanation for Niven's monofilament blades is that they were surrounded by a stasis field. The one-atom-thick object was, for all practical purposes, encased in an absolutely unbreakable force field.

For me, it was first explicitely described in The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke. It wasnt used as a weapon, but it was used to saw through a steel bolt at one point and otherwise hang an elevator from GEO.