ONGC partners with Japan's MOL to build VLECs for oil-to-chemicals business expansion, transforming India's petrochemical ...

The new polymer achieves impressive stiffness, up to 11 gigapascals, despite its low density of only 0.5 grams per cubic ...

Porous materials have a wide range of applications due to their capacity to act as filters, or lightweight structural ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious ...

This process shows high selectivity of up to 92% and a yield of 82%. The produced cyclopentene can be recycled back into ...

In the new rubber tanglemer, a long polymer strand at a crack tip de-concentrates stress over a long distance, making the material more resistant to crack growth than regular natural rubber. Image ...

In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have used a piece of ...

Attributed to its strain-induced crystallization (SIC), natural rubber (NR) exhibits more excellent mechanical properties compared to other elastomeric materials and has been attracting numerous ...

A polymer material made using the Cai laboratory’s “foldable bottlebrush polymer networks” can stretch as much as 40 times more than conventional crosslinked polymeric materials. Credit: Liheng Cai, ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that appears to rewrite the textbook on polymer engineering. No longer is it ...

Natural rubber not grown on trees Around half the world’s rubber is synthetic (i.e., derived from petroleum); the other half (natural rubber) is harvested from the latex-laden sap of Hevea trees.