A major portion—up to 15%—of the gas in a car’s tank is used to overcome the tires’ resistance to the road. So with green tires—or low rolling resistance tires—the fuel economy can increase greatly.

The extrusion of rubber compounds is often a multistep process including mixing, milling, extrusion and curing. This adds complexity to the job of a formulator trying to optimize formulations and ...

Liquid polybutadiene with a higher content of 1,2-vinyl units can be produced by the living-anion polymerization method. In this study, we carried out the evaluation of the epoxidized 1,2-PB ...