A key rubber component used in undersea tunnels loses up to 67% of its strength, jeopardizing its long-term durability.

The Rubber Division is hosting a special symposium Wednesday, April 15; 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Spring Technical Meeting that ...

Every day thousands of new cars hit the roads in China and they all travel on rubber tires. The four wheels on your car, or the 14 wheels on the trucks hurtling between Beijing and Shandong and beyond ...

INTRODUCTION THE elasticity of rubber and related substances is not of the same kind as the elasticity of steel or glass, but seems more to possess the nature of the elasticity of gases. This may ...

Chemists have made aerogels that have rubber-like elasticity and can "remember" their original shapes. Aerogels are created by replacing liquids with gases in a silica, metal oxide or polymer gel.

It is the first time an elasticity dominating the flow behavior in a Newtonian liquid like glycerol has been observed. Its existence is difficult to reconcile with common ideas about the interactions ...

Amorim Cork Solutions has cork-rubber composites that have a combination of elasticity, damping capacity, and long-term mechanical stability.