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DuPont Sclair solution polymerization technology, 20 196 DuPont—University Interface Model,... 

DuPont—University of North Carolina collaboration, 24 391 Durability... 

Lieven J. Dupont University Hospital Gasthuisbeig, Leuven, Belgium... 

D. HounsheU and J. Kenly Smith, Jr., Science and Corporate Strategy DuPont ReH9 1902—1980, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. 

James O. Maloney is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In 1941 he began liis professional career at the DuPont de Nemours Company, before joining the University of Kansas in 1945, where he taught for 40 years. He served as department chairman for nineteen years. He is a fellow of the AIChE. 

The CCPS RASC was chaired by Dennis C. Hendershot (Rohm 8i Haas Company), and committee members included Daniel A. Crowl (Michigan Technological University), Scott W. Ostrowski (Exxon Mobil Chemical), Randy Ereeman (Solutia, and subsequently, EQE), William Lutz (Union Carbide), Chuck Eryman (EMC Corporation), Della Wong (NOVA Chemicals), Walter Silowka (Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.), William Tilton (DuPont), Arthur Woltman (Shell), and Thomas Gibson (CCPS). 

A number of American research institutions and the people who shaped them have already featured in this book the creation of the Materials Research Laboratories Robert Mehl s influence on the Naval Research Laboratory and on Carnegie Institute of Technology Hollomon s influence on the GE laboratory Seitz s influence on the University of Illinois (and numerous other places) Carothers and Flory at the Dupont laboratory the triumvirate who invented the transistor and the atmosphere at Bell Laboratories that made this feat possible Stookey, glass-ceramics and the Corning Glass laboratory. I would like now to round off this list with an account of a most impressive laboratory that came to grief, and the man who shaped it. 

Polychloroprene rubber (CR) is the most popular and versatile of the elastomers used in adhesives. In the early 1920s, Dr. Nieuwland of the University of Notre Dame synthesized divinyl acetylene from acetylene using copper(l) chloride as catalyst. A few years later, Du Pont scientists joined Dr. Nieuwland s research and prepared monovinyl acetylene, from which, by controlled reaction with hydrochloric acid, the chloroprene monomer (2-chloro-l, 3-butadiene) was obtained. Upon polymerization of chloroprene a rubber-like polymer was obtained. In 1932 it was commercialized under the tradename DuPrene which was changed to Neoprene by DuPont de Nemours in 1936. 

Hounshell, D. A., and Smith, J. K. (1988). Science and Corporate Strategy DuPont R D, 1902-1980. New York Cambridge University Press. 

Scientists and engineers at the University of Exeter are investigating whether natural fibers tike hemp and sisal could be used to make sustainable and eco-friendly brake pads [39]. The technology of brake pads turned green with the replacement of asbestos by aramids (hke Kevlar of DuPont) in the 1980s. Kevlar is very expensive and eco-friendly alternatives like hemp, jute, sisal, nettle, and flax are much, much cheaper. A breakthrough in this application will revolutionize brake manufacture and protect the environment. 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 201 DuPont Hall,... 

Washington State University, Richland, WA, USA and DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE, USA... 

The support we received from our sponsors was much appreciated and greatly contributed to the success of the 22nd conference. On behalf of ORCS, 1 specifically thank these organizations Avantium, BASF Catalysts LLC, Eli Lilly and Company, Evonik Degussa Corporation, W.R. Grace (Davison Catalysts), Parr Instrument, Air Products, Amgen, Eastman, Umicore, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, Headwaters, HEt Lummus Technology, OMG, Seton Hall University (c/c Dr. John Sowa) and Slid Chemie. 

Many academic and industrial scientists serve as advisors to various federal agency programs in materials science. For example, the evaluation board for the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at NIST contains representatives from Bell Laboratories, DuPont, General Electric, Allied Signal, and numerous universities. The private sector would like to improve the interactions at the strategic policy level, but some bureaucratic handicaps must be overcome. 

AT T Bell Laboratories, 85, 373 Ar Products and Chemicals, Inc., 321 Alied Signal Inc., 28 Beckman Institute, 189 California Institute of Technology, 189 Carnegie Mellon University, 4 Cornell University, 259 DuPont Science and Engineering Laboratories, 161 Eastman Kodak Company, 55 Harvard University, 479 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 37,131, 397... 

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987 was awarded to Charles J. Pedersen (retired from DuPont company), Donald J. Cram (retired from the University of California, Los Angeles), and Jean-Marie Lehn (Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France) for their development of crown ethers and other molecules with structure specific interactions of high selectivity . 

Raised in Blue Island, Illinois, Schreiber graduated from Wabash College in 1931. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1935, with Ralph Shriner as his adviser. He then joined the Central Research Department of the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, where he soon became leader of a research group. 

James M. Meyer retired in 2001 as Vice President of DuPont Central Research and Development. He joined DuPont in 1969 and held a variety of research and management positions related to elastomers and polymers. He moved to Central Research and Development in 1992 as director of materials science and engineering, and he assumed his current position in 1996. Dr. Meyer received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Indiana University and his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from Northwestern University. 

George M. Homsy, University of California, Santa Barbara Paul A. Jennings, Florida Institute of Technology Michael P. Harold, DuPont... 

Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Raul F. Lobo, University of Delaware Nichalos T. Loux, Environmental Protection Agency Andrew J. Lovinger, National Science Foundation Peter Lykos, Illinois Institute of Technology Patricia Ann Mabrouk, Northeastern University Preston J. MacDougall, Middle Tennessee State University Alexander Maclachlan, DuPont (retired)... 

Janies S. Murday, National Research Laboratory Catherine J. Murphy, University of South Carolina James Y. Oldshue, Oldshue Technologies International, Inc. Thomas L. Netzel, Georgia State University Mark Nicholas, AstraZeneca International Tucker Norton, DuPont... 

We believe that the reader will find numerous examples of ingenious science and creative engineering in this volume, and we thank each of the authors for a job well done. In addition, we thank the editorial staff of the American Chemical Society as well as the secretarial staffs at Michigan State University, the University of Colorado, and DuPont for their support in this endeavor. 

Research and Development Division, DuPont, Inc., Towanda, PA 18848-9784 2Research and Development Division, DuPont, Inc., Wilmington, DE 19898 3Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802... 

Pratibha L. Gai, DuPont, Central Research and Development Laboratories, Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE19880-0356, USA and also at Department of Materials Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA (171)... 

Dr. Meng was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, under the supervision of Professor Fred Wudl in 2002. Before joining DuPont Company, he pursued internship training at Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories under Professor Zhenan Bao (now at Stanford University) in the field of organic electronics. 

Shlomo Rozen, DuPont Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, Willmington, Delaware 19880-0328 Permanent address Department of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel... 

MMG-H. HUNG DuPont Fluroproducts, Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0293. WILLIAM B. FARNHAM and ANDREW E. FEIRING DuPont Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0328. SHLOMO ROZEN DuPont Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0328. Present address School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. 

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