Goodyear Tire & Rubber has been granted a patent for a low-cost vulcanization accelerator that improves cure rates and reduces scorch in rubber compositions. The accelerator, a monofunctional thiuram ...

Rubber is everywhere in modern vehicles, from tires to timing belts. Eventually, all these items wear out, usually by cracking after countless cycles of stretching and snapping back into shape.

Because they're made of vulcanized rubber, old tires can't simply be melted down and used to make new tires. Such is reportedly not the case, however, with new rubber-free tires made from eco-friendly ...

Rubber is everywhere. Narrow your focus to just your car — it's everywhere in there, too. In addition to being the primary material in your tires, it is also found all over the place as dampeners, ...

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden have developed a new kind of rubber imbued with the ability to heal itself, possibly finding a permanent solution to flat tires. In ...

WASHINGTON—In the grand scheme of things, paper recycling is relatively easy once all the different grades are separated. As is metal recycling—ferrous from non-ferrous and go from there. Plastic ...

Rubber is a natural substance deriving from trees, but to get it into its useful form, treatment in the form of a process called vulcanization must occur. Vulcanization cures rubber via the method of ...

People have been making rubber products from elastic bands to tires for centuries, but a key step in this process has remained a mystery.Scientists have now described this elusive part of rubber ...