As a result, a typical rubber may be stretched up to about 10 times its original length. On removal of the external force,it rapidly recovers its original dimensions,with essentially no residual or ...

Most rubber is produced from crosslinkable high molecular weight linear polymers with low glass temperatures [1 6]. The high molecular weight is necessary to obtain high extensibility in the ultimate ...

Polymers were little-understood molecules when Carothers began his ... Du Pont started to manufacture neoprene, a synthetic rubber (commonly used in wetsuits) created by Carothers' lab.