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Dow Corning, Bay City. Dow Corning was formally established in 1943 as a joint venture between the American conglomerates Dow Chemical and Corning Glass to explore the potential of silicone and was a manufacturer of products for use by the U.S. military in World War II. The company began operating its first plant, in Midland, MI, in 1945.
Silastic-brand silicone elastomers have a range of applications. In the automotive industry they are used for making gaskets, spark plug boots, hoses and other components that must operate over a broad temperature range and resist oil and coolants.
Krytox fluoroether-based grease pictured alongside a tube of Dow Corning silicone grease (green). Both are often used in laboratories, including in high-vacuum applications, due to their inertness. Both are often used in laboratories, including in high-vacuum applications, due to their inertness.
In doing so, Dow Corning had invented a durable, non-leaching, persistent, surface bonding antimicrobial effective against a wide range of unicellular microorganisms on a variety of surfaces. There are at least 4 private companies in the United States who are the primary manufacturers of Silane-Quats, which are widely known by various names ...
Based on 2002–2003 data, the Freeport plants produced 27 billion lbs of product – or 21% of Dow's global production. [ 21 ] [ better source needed ] In 1942, Dow began its foreign expansion with the formation of Dow Chemical of Canada in Sarnia, Ontario , to produce styrene for use in styrene-butadiene synthetic rubber . [ 22 ]
Its development has been traced to Corning's work in developing photosensitive glass. [2] Corning credits S. Donald Stookey with the discovery of Pyroceram. While conducting research in 1953 on a photosensitive lithium silicate glass called Fotoform containing a dispersion of silver nanoparticles, Stookey noted that an accidentally overheated fragment of the glass resisted breakage when ...
Originally invented by Dow Corning (1970), [25] and now produced by Applied Quantum Materials Inc. . Unlike other negative resists, HSQ is inorganic and metal-free. Therefore, exposed HSQ provides a low dielectric constant (low-k) Si-rich oxide. A comparative study against other photoresists was reported in 2015 (Dow Corning HSQ). [26]
After receiving business grants, [12] Ní Dhulchaointigh worked with retired scientists from Dow Corning [13] and a silicone expert over a seven-year period [11] at the materials department at Queen Mary, University of London [11] to develop a silicone elastomer that was mouldable, self-adhesive and self-curing. Her goal was to enable people ...