The rapid increase in the use of plastics and the related sustainability issues, including the
depletion of global petroleum reserves, have rightly sparked interest in the use of biobased …

As the second natural rubber resource, Eucommia ulmoides rubber (EUR) from Eucommia
ulmoides Oliver is mainly composed of trans-1, 4-polyisoprene, which is the isomer of …

The thermo-activated reprocessing ability of a chemically crosslinked epoxidized natural
rubber (ENR) is investigated. Disulfide groups are introduced into the rubber using …

With the development of long-life asphalt pavement, it has attracted considerable attention to
improving the durability of pavement engineering materials. An effective action is the use of …

Invented by Charles Goodyear, chemical cross-linking of rubbers by sulfur vulcanization is
the only method by which modern automobile tires are manufactured. The formation of these …

Cross-linked rubbers used in everyday life, thermoset by nature, represent a major
environmental problem at their end of life. The European Union has introduced a hierarchy …

Introducing ionic associations is one of the most effective approaches to realize a self-
healing behavior for rubbers. However, most of commercial rubbers are nonpolar rubbers …

As a proof of concept, this study reports a facile method to prepare photo-crosslinkable, self-
healable and reprocessable rubbers, which are rapidly crosslinked and patterned variform …

Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) is an applied engineering polymeric material having
immense transformative potential for industrial applications because of its unique rubber like …

A self-healing sulfur vulcanized natural rubber (NR) is here reported using the common
ingredients in a traditional NR formulation. The dynamic character of the di-and polysulfide …