In September, the European Commission listed natural rubber as a critical raw material for the European Union, bringing new attention to the sustainable supply of the material. A "critical raw ...

Dandelions are modest plants that are an excellent alternative source for a raw material of high demand: natural rubber, the fundamental ingredient in rubber products. Fraunhofer researchers have ...

WORCESTER, Mass. and AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vystar Corp. (OTC Market: VYST) announced advances in ultra-low protein natural rubber latex relating to performance improvements, ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union has included natural rubber on its list of "critical" raw materials for a second time, a move welcomed by the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers' Association (ETRMA).

Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured biomaterials, has been used by humans for thousands of years. Its resistance to crack growth, however, hasn't improved much for decades.

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...

BRUSSELS—The European Union has declared natural rubber a "critical raw material," and emphasized the need "to ensure the secure, sustainable and affordable supply (of NR) for the EU manufacturing ...

Recent investigations into rubber materials have deepened our understanding of the complex interplay between inherent viscoelastic behaviour and progressive aging. Rubber, widely used in applications ...

It seemed particularly apt at IRC ‘96 to present the life history of natural rubber on what was almost exactly 500 years to the day (11 June 1496) that Christopher Columbus returned from his second ...

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 ...

Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited. Polyisoprene is the principal component of natural rubber and of many ...