chapter 1 Natural Rubber and Recycled Materials / chapter 2 General-Purpose Elastomers / chapter 3 Special-Purpose Elastomers / chapter 4 Butyl Rubbers / chapter 5 Thermoplastic Elastomers: Fundamentals and Applications Tonson Abraham and Colleen McMahan -- chapter 6 Carbon Black / chapter 7 Silica and Silanes and Stefan Uhrlandt / chapter 8 General Compounding / chapter 9 Resins / chapter 10 Antioxidants and Other Protectant Systems / chapter 11 Vulcanization -- chapter 12 Compound Development and Applications