elastomer

[ih-las-tuh-mer]

noun

Chemistry.

1. an elastic substance occurring naturally, as natural rubber, or produced synthetically, as butyl rubber or neoprene.

elastomer

/ ɪˌlæstəˈmɛrɪk, ɪˈlæstəmə /

noun

1. any material, such as natural or synthetic rubber, that is able to resume its original shape when a deforming force is removed

Other Word Forms

• elastomeric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of elastomer¹

1935–40; elast(ic) + -o- + Greek méros a part

Word History and Origins

Origin of elastomer¹

C20: from _elastic + _-mer

Example Sentences

The liquid crystalline elastomer structures printed by Devin Roach of the OSU College of Engineering and collaborators can crawl, fold and snap directly after printing.

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The patch is made of a silicone elastomer that houses an array of small piezoelectric transducers sandwiched between stretchable copper electrodes.

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The patch, roughly the size of a postage stamp, is constructed from a silicone elastomer embedded with several layers of stretchy electronics.

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The use of elastomers over hydrogels -- the material used in state-of-the-art approaches -- has the added advantage of creating structures that are water-free, making them more stable over time.

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The first-of-its-kind metafluid uses a suspension of small, elastomer spheres -- between 50 to 500 microns -- that buckle under pressure, radically changing the characteristics of the fluid.

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