Rubber is one of the rare materials that can be used in many sectors and for multiple purposes. It a wide range frameworks, from very simple coating to complex spacecraft parts. Apart natural rubber, compounds are also different purposes rubber production. For product with such uses, sustainability its particularly important. The objective this study investigate environmentally friendly sustain...

Steel and textile cord coating is one of the key rubber processing technologies in tiremaking industry. It is carried out on calendering lines where thickness variation across the sheet profile and downstream is very difficult to fulfill. Recent development of optoelectronics and derived sensory systems has enabled the replacement of traditional radioactive systems for measurement of calendered...

Case Report A 71-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy and prior coronary artery bypass grafting surgery with a dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placed 4 years earlier for a history of ventricular tachycardia was referred for lead extraction because of recurrent fever, vegetations on his atrial lead, and Kocuria varians bacteremia. He had a Guidant 4470 right atrial...

This paper reports on the use of Zr-based (Zr53Cu33Al9Ta5) thin film metallic glass (TFMG) for the coating of syringe needles and compares the results with those obtained using titanium nitride and pure titanium coatings. TFMG coatings were shown to reduce insertion forces by ∼66% and retraction forces by ∼72%, when tested using polyurethane rubber block. The benefits of TFMG-coated needles wer...

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Scrap tires continue to be a major source of waste due to the lack of valuable and effective disposal routes. A viable solution to this problem is to recycle crumb rubber (CR)-a granulated material derived from scrap tires-and use it to develop other valuable products. Herein we report the fabrication and characterization of CR-modified coatings with anticorrosive properties on metal substrates...

OBJECTIVE To examine the usefulness of room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone rubber as a barrier material for cell exclusion zone assays. METHODS We created barriers using three types of RTV silicone rubber with differing viscosities. We then assessed the adherence of these barriers to culture dishes and their ease of removal from the dishes. We tested the effect of the newly created ba...