Compounding virgin rubber involves melting the rubber into pliable sheets and then incorporating ingredients, such as peroxides, petroleum oils, and wax, into the virgin rubbers or polymers. Peroxides ...

UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling ...

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The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...