The nuclear power industry uses elastomers, or rubber, for many sealing applications such as airlock doors, hatches, pool gates, drywell heads, vibration dampening and others. Made from long-chain ...

Researchers have developed a family of highly stretchable and UV curable (SUV) elastomers that can be stretched by up to 1100%, and are suitable for UV curing based 3-D printing techniques. Using high ...

A research team led by Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki from Saarland University is using a highly versatile film not much thicker than household cling film to impart new capabilities to ...

Elastic polymers, or elastomers, are desirable materials because they can repeatedly de-form and re-form. But this softness often comes at the expense of mechanical strength, which the materials need ...

KENT, Ohio—With three facilities across the state of Ohio, Kent Elastomer Products has spent more than 60 years carving out a niche for itself in the latex production space. Now the only manufacturer ...

Cabot (NYSE:CBT) specializes in performance materials and specialty chemicals, expanding operations in advanced industrial ...