The grating sound of worn-out wiper blades scraping across wet windshields may be a bygone irritation if a University of Maryland researcher can perfect a rubber that resists damage from ozone expo… ...

HALLE, Germany—Researchers in Germany have reported a potentially significant advance with the development of a process for the enzymatic degradation of synthetic polyisoprene rubber. While enzymes ...

The Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World War I. Polymerization (the process of linking molecules together in long ...

Rubber tires are built to last, but that durability makes them a nightmare to recycle. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) have developed a mild, ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...

THE rubber shortage, the gravest material crisis this country has ever faced, is at last on the road to solution. Synthetic rubber has turned the corner. Big factories are rapidly coming into ...

Synthetic rubber and plastics – used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriad other products – are produced from butadiene, a molecule traditionally made from petroleum or natural gas. But those ...