{"id":155216,"date":"2026-07-27T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155216"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:00:06","slug":"why-use-rare-earths-in-rubber-production-chinese-scientists-are-engineering-tougher-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155216","title":{"rendered":"Why use rare earths in rubber production? Chinese scientists are engineering tougher tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have completed trials of a new rare earth-based synthetic rubber production facility, industrialising a major raw material for manufacturing electric vehicle and heavy-duty vehicle tyres.<br \/>\nHigh-quality synthetic rubber, most of which uses metal as a catalyst during production, is vital to the transport industry, manufacturing and national defence.<br \/>\nThe unit, built by Xinjiang-based PetroChina subsidiary Dushanzi Petrochemical with support from the Changchun Institute of Applied&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3361704\/why-use-rare-earths-rubber-production-chinese-scientists-are-engineering-tougher-tyres?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have completed trials of a new rare earth-based synthetic rubber production facility, industrialising a major raw material for manufacturing electric vehicle and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}