Rubber Reserve Program

Between the 1920s when the initial commercial development of mbbery elastomers based on 1,3-dienes began (5—7), and 1955 when transition metal catalysts were fkst used to prepare synthetic polyisoprene, researchers in the U.S. and Europe developed emulsion polybutadiene and styrene—butadiene copolymers as substitutes for natural mbber. However, the tire properties of these polymers were inferior to natural mbber compounds. In seeking to improve the synthetic material properties, research was conducted in many laboratories worldwide, especially in the U.S. under the Rubber Reserve Program. 

Following the Japanese blockade of exports from the natural rubber plantations of Malaysia, the United States established the Rubber Reserve Program, a crash program... 

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Meanwhile, Arnold Beckman (b.1900), hitherto a manufacturer of electronic pH meters, had joined forces with Robert Brattain - the brother of Walter Brattain of transistor fame - at Shell Research, with the encouragement of the U. S. Government s Rubber Reserve Company. Beckman s first commercial infrared spectrometer, the IR-1, was developed in 1942 and was used by the wartime synthetic rubber research program. However, the classified nature of this and similar work meant that Beckman spectrometers were not generally available until 1945, when the IR-2 was marketed. Meanwhile, in Britain, Adam Hilger and Grubb Parsons independ-... 

This investigation was carried out under the sponsorship of the Office of Rubber Reserve, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, in connection with the Government Synthetic Rubber Program. 

Rubber Reserve Company, Report on the Rubber Program 1940-1945. Covers activities of Rubber Reserve Company from June 1940 to February 1945. Data on government-owned plants in the synthetic rubber program. 

It was my privilege to know Paul when he was at Cincinnati and I was at Akron. I envied his university association and was surprised when he left Cincinnati to join Standard Oil at Linden, NJ in 1940. Our paths crossed again when I served as a consultant for Rubber Reserve Corp. on the butyl rubber program. However, to my knowledge, Paul did not attempt to correct tlie difficulties experienced by Standard Oil when its attempts to produce this elastomer at Baton Rouge, LA were unsuccessful. Of course, it is a pleasure for me to report that Dr. John Durland and I were able to solve the production problem and make possible the commercial products of this important elastomer. 

He considered three possible loci for the initiation of pol5nner particle nuclei (79), based on his studies during 1942-1943 in connection with the Rubber Reserve Company (Synthetic Rubber Program of the United States Government) (1) the soap micelles, if present, (2) the aqueous phase, excluding soap micelles and polymer-monomer particles, and (3) the monomer droplets. He considered the monomer droplets as... 

A large amount of basic research was carried out on all phases of emulsion polymerisation as part of the government rubber program, most of which has not yet [1946, Ed. note] been released for publication. [The paper of Kolthoff and Dale (Kolthoff and Dale, 1945) was part of this program and was published with the permission of the Rubber Reserve Company, Washington, D. C.j One can, therefore, look forward in the not too distant future to many informative articles in this field. 

We have now embarked on a program to realize this potential. The U. S. Rubber Co. and Martin-Marietta Corp. have created a new, jointly-owned subsidiary—Isochem, Inc. This new company will build a fission product conversion and encapsulation plant at the Hanford, Wash., reservation to produce fully encapsulated fission products for commercial use (5). The plant is designed with four separate production lines, each for a different fission product. The capacity of each line varies with the process involved and the batch sizes and processing time. The capacity of the single line normally used for cesium-137 has been set at 29 million curies per year to meet the projected market demands of the early 1970,s (1). At these production quantities, cesium-137 should be available at less than ten cents per curie for large irradiators. 

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