Throughout its nearly 100-year manufacturing history, the crack resistance of natural rubber—one of the world's most widely ...

His Buggestion is that the vulcanization of rubber with sulphur gives a rubber sulphide product which acts as a reinforcing agent for the rest of the rubber mass; and, since this material is ...

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 ...

By varying the amount of materials they added to raw rubber, Mesoamericans were able to produce bouncy rubber balls for the Mayas’ ceremonial games, resilient rubber sandals and sticky material ...