Metal rubber materials, derived from the entanglement of metallic wires, represent a class of engineered porous composites that combine high elasticity with exceptional damping and load-bearing ...

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 ...

With its distinctive tactility and unique smell, rubber is a veritable feast for the senses, providing idiosyncrasy and the potential for design ingenuity in equal measures. Its influence ranges from ...

Tribological studies have always focused on the frictional properties of ball bearings and their components due to the fact that lower friction results in lower energy consumption. However, it is ...

Drawing inspiration from the muscle protein titin, a group of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC; Vancouver, BC, Canada) has developed biomaterials that demonstrate some of the ...

Bridgestone. has filed a patent for a rubber composition containing natural rubber, high-Tg modified styrene-butadiene rubber, and low-Tg modified styrene-butadiene rubber with specific modifications ...

Silicone rubber is a synthetic elastomer made from silicone, a polymer composed of silicon, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. As an elastomer, it has elastic properties similar to rubber. But what exactly ...