Plenty of familiar phenomena and materials are actually scientific mysteries. Reinforced rubber has long been on that list: why is it so efficient in so many applications, from aircraft tires 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 ...

Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...