Students stretch pre-cut rubber bands to their lips, stretch the rubber bands, and then allow them to contract. The rubber bands grow warmer as they expand and cool as they contract. To Conduct ...

Naturally-occurring rubber latex is soft and stretchy ... their resistance to crack growth when the material is cyclically stretched, a measurement known as the fatigue threshold.

Sometimes it would be helpful if a 3D printed object could stretch & bend. Flexible filament like TPU is one option, but [NagyBig] designed a simple bracelet to ask: how about embedding rubber ...

Since the invention of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear in 1839, polymer engineers have grappled with a persistent ...