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May 25, 2016

Graphene makes rubber more rubbery
Manchester UK (SPX) May 25, 2016
In an article published in Carbon, Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan and Dr Maria Iliut from Manchester have shown that adding a very small amount of graphene, the world's thinnest and strongest material, to rubber films can increase both their strength and the elasticity by up to 50%. Thin rubber films are ubiquitous in daily life, used in everything from gloves to condoms. In their experiments, the scientists tested two kinds of rubbery materials - natural rubber, comprised of a material called polyisop ... read more

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