The ACS Rubber Division had the first female winner of its coveted Charles Goodyear Medal in 2017. Now it has honored the first female winner to take home its Melvin Mooney award.
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By Kit Chapman2021-01-11T09:14:00+00:00
From their colonial roots to future alternatives, Kit Chapman looks at the chemistry of natural elastomers
In the jungles of Brazil, near to where the dark waters of the Rio Negro meet the vast, muddy flow of the Amazon, a worker scrapes expertly at a tree. The trunk is already stripped of bark in places, scarred by countless previous wounds that have left a criss-crossed mess of scratches, but with careful management years of useful life still remain. Pulling away his curved blade, a cross between a carving knife and a machete, the worker points to the edge of the bark he’s pulled free. Already, a milk-white stream of latex has begun to appear, leaking from the cut like blood from a cut. Slowly, it drips into a waiting iron cup.