Reinforced rubber has long been on that list: why is it so efficient in so many applications, from aircraft tires to industrial seals to medical devices? One team of engineers believes it finally has ...

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

Rubber seems ordinary until it fails. It holds air in your car tires, seals machinery in power plants, cushions vibration in ...

When I was in elementary school, I convinced my parents to buy me the book How to Make and Fly Paper Airplanes. From that book, I learned how to make planes that actually flew. The planes were so good ...

DES PLAINES, Ill.—Rahco Rubber, a custom rubber product manufacturer for OEMs, has added William Meyer to its manufacturing engineering group. Meyer brings vast industrial experience to Rahco, the ...

LONDON—The Rubber in Engineering Group of the IoM3 will run a webinar March 19 on elastomer use in sustainable energy generation. Led by Julien Ramier and Alan Bickley, the afternoon technical ...

The vulcanization process is a cornerstone of rubber engineering, involving the cross-linking of polymer chains to enhance elasticity, durability and resistance to chemical degradation. Recent ...

Engineers at RMIT University have uncovered a way to replace conventional concrete aggregates with rubber from discarded tyres, an advance that meets building regulations and reduces manufacturing and ...

Twenty-two years ago, while the U. S. was trying to win World War I, the Du Ponts set a young engineer, Francis Breese Davis Jr., to building the world’s No. 1 guncotton plant at Hopewell, Va. Eleven ...

The new material, nicknamed “thubber,” is an electrically insulating composite that exhibits an unprecedented combination of metal-like thermal conductivity, elasticity similar to soft, biological ...