Far from China’s traditional tropical plantations, researchers have turned to the Gobi Desert as ...

Graft copolymerization, a versatile modification technique, has emerged as a key method to enhance the intrinsic properties of natural rubber. By covalently bonding synthetic polymer chains onto the ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been leveraged to study the surface defects of natural rubber vulcanizates so that their structural−mechanical properties can be defined. This data is vital to ...

Natural rubber (NR) is considered to be an important industrial crop and is contained predominantly in the milky sap or latex of a tree known as Hevea brasiliensis, as well as a small amount of ...

Harvard researchers have developed a new way to produce natural rubber that endows the material with higher crack resistance and durability. Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured ...

Tyre manufacturers express concerns over natural rubber shortages, urging the Rubber Board for an independent assessment to stabilize supplies.

The Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA) said domestic supplies of natural rubber have become severely ...

If you’ve read this column for any length of time, then you know I am obsessed with the fact that tires are agricultural products. Natural rubber is a key component in every tire, some more important ...

Many people know that most of Germany’s army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic ...