Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains ...

Graft copolymerization, a versatile modification technique, has emerged as a key method to enhance the intrinsic properties of natural rubber. By covalently bonding synthetic polymer chains onto the ...

Harvard researchers have developed a new way to produce natural rubber that endows the material with higher crack resistance and durability. Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured ...

Natural rubber latex (NRL), a colloidal dispersion predominantly derived from Hevea brasiliensis, has emerged as a promising biocompatible medium for drug delivery and various biomedical applications.

Bridgestone is growing desert shrubs called guayule in Arizona as an alternative source of rubber. Guayule could be a sustainable domestic source of rubber, helping reduce deforestation. This article ...

As U.S. citizens this week begin feeling the effects of the nation’s reduced supplies of natural rubber, they will also begin hearing more & more about synthetic rubbers. Shortage or no shortage, ...

The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) announced a three-year partnership with Berlin-based social ...

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 ...

Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back. Partnering with Brazilian organizations, Indigenous Gavião communities find ...

For more than a decade, Jody Scott tended shrubs in a dry field in southern Arizona. A lifelong farmer of myriad crops, Scott calls this the most boring thing he’s ever grown. And growing it, he said, ...