Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured biomaterials, has been used by humans for thousands of years. Its resistance to crack ...

Ad joining its plant is a U.S. Rubber conversion plant ... corn at $1 a bushel comes to 14¢ per lb. Before the war natural rubber sold up to 22¢ a lb., but its peacetime average was nearer ...

Materials scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a method for creating natural rubber that significantly increases its resistance to ...

That amount of friction necessitates the use of natural rubber. The U.S. is able to grow three natural rubber plants in the contiguous 48 states—dandelion, guayule shrub and mountain gum. They can be ...