Today tires consist of about 19 percent natural rubber and 24 percent synthetic rubber, which is a plastic polymer. The rest is made up of metal and other compounds.

A University of Texas at Austin team has developed new resins for 3D printing materials quickly with flexibility, strength ...

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

The research team at the Department of Chemistry at KAIST has achieved a breakthrough by selectively converting waste tires ...

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

Diamonds have a reputation as one of the hardest materials known to man, which is undoubtedly true, but they're not as tough as you think they are.

Natural Rubber: Kerala's yield has fallen from 6,48,220 tonne to 6,09,600 tonne in 10 years. Assam's share has grown from 13,600 tonne to 46,500 tonne while Meghalaya is at 11,775 tonne, up from ...

Production of natural rubber in 2023-24 was at 8,57,000 tonnes. However, declining prices of block rubber in the international market were likely to affect domestic prices.

A total of 108 million lots of natural rubber futures were traded on the SHFE in 2024, up 24.1 percent year-on-year. The total trading value spiked 53.4 percent from a year earlier to 17.36 ...

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 ...