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Professor Mailer and I have enjoyed cordial relations for over thirty years, but this is the first time he and I have been honored together for our separate and almost simultaneous discovery of what has become known as the Mttller-Rochow Process. It is a great pleasure, and a source of much personal satisfaction to us, that we have both been awarded the "Wacker Silicon-Preis" during the stimulating and enjoyable "Munich Silicon Days 92". 

U.S. Patent 3507799, 1970 Hart, G.M. (Stauf-fer-Wacker Silicone Corp.) Chem. Abstr. 1970, 73, 25644. 

SAG 1010 from Union Carbide Corp., or SWS 211 from Wacker Silicones Corp. 

Robert West was bom in New Jersey and educated at Cornell University (B.A.) and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.). For the past 45 years he has been a faculty member in the chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin, where he is now E. G. Rochow Professor and Director of the Organosilicon Research Center. His many awards include the Frederick Stanley Kipping Award, the Wacker silicone prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Award, and the main group chemistry medal. He has published more than 600 scientific papers, mostly in the area of silicon chemistry. Major discoveries in his laboratories include the first soluble polysilanes (1978), the silicon-silicon double bond (1981), the first stable silylenes (1994), and electrically conducting organosilanes for high energy density batteries (2000). He is an airplane pilot and a mountaineer, with numerous first ascents in Canada and Alaska. 

During the I. Miinchner Silicontage the Wacker-Silicon-Preis was awarded to the two pioneers of silicone chemistry - Prof. Dr. Richard Muller and Prof. Dr. Eugene Ro-chow. In the course of the II. Miinchner Silicontage this award was conferred on Prof. Dr. Edwin Hengge, Technische Universitat Graz, for his fundamental work on linear, cyclic, and oligomeric polysilanes. 

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With its new proprietary process, Wacker Silicones is now positioned to produce monofimctional silicone fluids from D3. Pilot plant product samples of different molecular weights and functionalities are available for customers on request (Fig. 1). 

The concept of lower water vapor permeability has been tested in comparison to a silicone based RTV-2 system (Elastosil SG 500 from Wacker Silicones) according to DIN 53122-1 (samples were 2 mm thick). The Poly bd RT 45 HTLO-based sample also contained ground calcium carbonate as a filler. It can be clearly seen that the overall permeability is significantly lower for the novel RTV-2 system. 

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Some benefits of Wacker silicone nanospheres for thermosets are... 

BelsiL [Wacker Chemie GmbH Wacker Silicones] Silicone compds. conditioner for hair atxl skin care i ods., decorative cosmetics. 

Dehesive Silicones. [Wacker Silicones] Paper release agents. 

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