Chemistry, plastics

Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry at the 179th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, Texas,... 

The other ACS divisions that served as joint sponsors with the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and the chairmen provided for three of the four sessions of this symposium should be identified for their helpful assistance Howard M. Peters from the Division of Chemical Information (Chemistry and the Law Subdivision) Kenneth W. Greenlee from the Division of Small Chemical Businesses and Lawrence Keller from the Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry. Lawrence Keller served also as co-chairman and helped develop the general scope of the symposium. The Board Committee on Corporation Associates also was a joint sponsor. 

The ACS High Polymer Forum, similar to today s Macromolecular Secretariat, with the help of C.S. Fuller and A.C. Elm, began meeting at the 19 16 Atlantic City ACS meeting. Through the efforts of the Polymer Forum, the Division of Paint, Varnish and Plastics Chemistry and others in 1948 a group of university and industry chemists petitioned the American Chemical Society to establish a separate division of Polymer Chemistry. After a probation period... 

Of note was (and continues to be) the efforts of the Joint Education Committees of the Divisions of Polymer Chemistry (chaired by Eli Pearce presently chaired by Guy Donaruma) and Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry (chaired by Charles Carraher). Most of the accomplishments noted following could not have been accomplished without the joint cooperation of these two committees which acted as one "super" committee. 

Under the leadership of Eli Pearce and Shalaby Shalaby, and the sponsorship of the Divisions of Polymer Chemistry and Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry, an entire issue of CHEMISTRY was devoted to polymer chemistry (Vol. 51, No. 5, June of 1978). Several thousand extra copies were purchased for a wide variety of... 

I. Stahl, G. Allan. II. American Chemical Society. Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry. III. Chemical Congress of the North American Continent (2nd 1980 Las Vegas, Nev.) IV. Series. 

Craver, J. K. Tess, R. W. "Applied Polymer Science" organic Coatings and Plastics chemistry Division of the ACS Washington, D. C. 1975. 

W. E. Driver, Plastic Chemistry and Technology, Chapter 12, Van Nostrand-Reinhold, New... 

During World War II a large amount of research was carried out in seeking fully synthetic polymeric materials which could substitute a semi-synthetic polymer such as nitrocellulose. This research was connected with the immense development of plastics chemistry, which began shortly before World War II and is still advancing at a great pace. 

Cuddihy, E. F., Moacanin, J. 155th ACS meeting-Org. Coating Plastic Chemistry preprint 28(1), 449 (1968)... 

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