WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio—Tim Rhyne and Steve Cron have a hard time picturing themselves as the type of researchers who would receive the Charles Goodyear Medal. The two retired Michelin North ...
AKRON—Demand for natural rubber is steadily increasing—alongside the mounting risks to this critical material, which depends heavily on the monoclonal hevea tree. That's why Katrina Cornish, Ohio ...
In 1839, Charles Goodyear was on the verge of a momentous discovery. Natural rubber is useful within only a narrow temperature window—it becomes a foul-smelling goo at slightly elevated temperatures ...