Every day thousands of new cars hit the roads in China and they all travel on rubber tires. The four wheels on your car, or the 14 wheels on the trucks hurtling between Beijing and Shandong and beyond ...
INTRODUCTION THE elasticity of rubber and related substances is not of the same kind as the elasticity of steel or glass, but seems more to possess the nature of the elasticity of gases. This may ...
Scientists have developed a fibre that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal. Researchers at North Carolina State University are behind the innovation, which has created a ...
London, May 22 (IANS) Adding a very small amount of graphene -- the world's thinnest and strongest material -- to rubber films can increase both their strength and the elasticity by up to 50 percent, ...
Wood is widely used in building materials and furniture, and has the characteristics of being relatively light and having high heat insulation. In recent years, At ...
Chemists have made aerogels that have rubber-like elasticity and can "remember" their original shapes. Aerogels are created by replacing liquids with gases in a silica, metal oxide or polymer gel.