Natural rubber is widely used in tires, transport, construction, health care and industrial products because of its ...

Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber—one of the world's most widely used biomaterials—hasn't improved much. Until now. Materials researchers at ...

Precipitated silicas have been used as a reinforcing filler in rubber formulations for more than 80 years. In the early years it was the filler of choice in non-marking applications such as shoe soles ...