Tires are essential to modern transport, but their production and use raise environmental concerns. One important issue is zinc oxide, a common activator used in rubber vulcanization. Zinc oxide helps ...

< (From left) Kyungmin Choi (MS-Ph.D. integrated course, Department of Chemistry), Dr. Beomsoon Park, Professor Soon Hyeok Hong, Dr. Kyoungil Cho > Approximately 1.5 billions of tires are discarded ...

Rubber tires are built to last, but that durability makes them a nightmare to recycle. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) have developed a mild, ...

DRESDEN, Germany (Sept. 29, 2015) — Unvulcanized, tire-grade bromobutyl rubber can be made to heal cuts or tears through ionic modification, according to a group of German and Finnish researchers. The ...

Rubber is a natural substance deriving from trees, but to get it into its useful form, treatment in the form of a process called vulcanization must occur. Vulcanization cures rubber via the method of ...

(TestMiles) – A modern tire looks deceptively ordinary: a black ring filled with air. In reality, it carries weight, absorbs ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...