That’s when Charles Goodyear accidentally discovered that heating natural rubber with sulfur created chemical crosslinks ...

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 ...

A new design by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science could solve the ...

These "foldable bottlebrush polymer networks" could pave the way for materials that are both robust and highly flexible.

Researchers' new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn't sacrifice stretchability for stiffness.