Imagine getting a flat tire, but instead of swapping it out for a new one you just smear on a chemical that makes the rubber meld seamlessly back together. That’s the kind of breakthrough researchers ...

More than 10 million scrap tires are produced annually in Michigan alone. Michigan Tech researcher Zhanping You is recycling ...

Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains ...

Materials have been shaping our world since the dawn of human civilization. Among them, rubber, a versatile and adaptable material, has a wide range of domestic and industrial uses, from tyres and ...

Göran Spetz, manager and owner of Elastocon AB, talks to AZoM about the degradation of rubber materials and the need for artificial ageing of rubber within industry. Could you explain the need for ...

Rubber and metal are usually thought to sit at opposite ends of the stiffness spectrum, but a new composite material developed at Iowa State University could switch from the flexibility of the former ...

Everyday items like car tires, plastic bags and foam cushions come from materials called polymers that can take years to develop and test. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University ...

Rubber-like materials can exhibit both spring-like and flow-like behaviors simultaneously, which contributes to their exceptional damping abilities. To understand the dynamic viscoelasticity of these ...

Researchers have created a new, rubber-like material with a unique set of properties, which could act as a replacement for human tissue in medical procedures. The material has the potential to make a ...

Rubber-like materials have outstanding damping properties because they can concurrently display flow-like and spring-like characteristics. Recently, Japanese researchers have created a novel technique ...

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a new, rubber-like material with a unique set of properties, which could act as a replacement for human tissue in medical ...