On average, today’s passenger car tires contain up to 25 components and 12 different rubber compounds, including silica. But why does silica matter? You should care about silica in tire performance!

Herein, we propose that the cracking resistance of the coating can be enhanced through the incorporation of hydrophobic silica nanoparticles. The hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were fabricated by ...

Examples are drawn from amorphous silicon and silica literature as well as from molecular glasses. Our outlook stresses the need for new computational methods to extend the time- and length-scales ...