Continental's pioneering use of silica in tyres significantly reduces braking distances and improves fuel efficiency, marking ...

All super shoes have a rigid, curved carbon-fiber plate embedded in the midsole. While many assume that this acts like a ...

You know the shoes Ruth Chepngetich and Eilud Kipchoge wear, partially responsible for some of the fastest marathon times ever recorded? Those are called super shoes. They’re thick-soled, with ...

Plastics, which are polymeric materials composed of long chains of small molecules called monomers, are widely used in everyday life and industry due to their lightweight, good strength and ...

The design of polymer networks is one of the oldest and most important challenges in chemistry, impacting many of the highest volume chemical industries from rubber to adhesives to biomedical ...

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Interconnected materials containing networks are ubiquitous in the world around us—rubber, car tires ... was modified in 1996 for a study on the elastic properties of DNA. Both were based on a model ...

The newly developed polymer is easy to manage, as it exhibits fluorescence at damaged sites, enabling real-time damage ...

Munich, Germany – WACKER is all set to showcase a new generation of silane-terminated polyethers at the European Coatings Show 2025: GENIOSIL® STP-E 140 and GENIOSIL® STP-E 340. These novel polymers ...

Polymer Putty is made from the reaction between glue, which is made up of droplets of a polymer called polyvinyl acetate suspended in water, and borax. The borax crosslinks the polymer and a network ...

Every year, millions of tires end up in landfills, creating an environmental crisis with far-reaching consequences. In the ...