image: 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 material silly putty® (polysilicone) conduct electricity, creating extremely sensitive sensors. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 9, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.S. Boland at Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) in Dublin, Ireland, and colleagues was titled, "Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites." view more
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin