Developing and utilizing new technology always has been key to advancing the rubber industry. And those companies that are at the forefront of such developments give themselves a better chance for ...

SINGAPORE—The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber, an independent platform designed to improve the socio-economic and environmental performance of the natural rubber value chain, is up and ...

While setting out to fabricate new springs to support a cephalopod-inspired imaging project, a group of researchers stumbled upon a surprising discovery: the hemihelix, a shape rarely seen in nature.

Imagine if there were a metallic device that could be transported all squished down into a compact ball, but that would automatically "bloom" out into its useful form when heated. Well, that may soon ...

The Moldless System creates custom rubber shapes from natural rubber, nitrile/Buna-N, and neoprene, as well as EPT, EPDM, fluoro/Viton, SBR, silicone, and urethanes. Single prototypes and short ...

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.

In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an entirely new shape — while playing with elastic bands. In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an ...