Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...

The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...

In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...

Materials have been shaping our world since the dawn of human civilization. Among them, rubber, a versatile and adaptable material, has a wide range of domestic and industrial uses, from tyres and ...

Catheters, medical and sporting gloves, tires, condoms and some 50,000 other products depend on the more than 15 million tons of natural rubber produced every year, a researcher at Ohio State studying ...

Japanese researchers say they have produced rubber from a natural substance extracted from an edible, wild mushroom commonly found in the country. Researchers at Gunma University, west of Tokyo, have ...

Semiconductor chips don't grow on trees but the raw material for rubber does and that's in short supply too, adding another headache for automakers and tire producers. But one major tire company is ...

Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically ...