Here, Conor Boland and colleagues added sheets of graphene to lightly cross-linked silicone polymers - the same stretchy material that children play with, in the form of Silly Putty.

Professor Jonathan Coleman, Investigator in AMBER and Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics, along with postdoctoral researcher Conor Boland, have used graphene to make the novelty children's ...

For now, we are focusing on scaling-up and optimizing G-Putty using advanced modelling. I am also investigating the potential of other low viscosity elastic polymers for sensing applications.” ...

The polymer went by the brand name of Silly Putty. According to news reports in The Fiat Lux, the 100-pound ball was acquired from the then-Corning Glassworks by engineering graduate student John ...

Two hundred times stronger than steel, yet highly flexible with unique electronic properties, the carbon-based material, graphene, is one of the most exciting discoveries of recent decades.

The Chem Demo, provided by Benjamin Wicker and the SLU chemistry department, focused on Silly Putty: Synthesizing a Polymer. Students received a hands-on experiment in the science behind making ...