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Neoprene's burn point is around 260 °C (500 °F). [21] In its native state, neoprene is a very pliable rubber-like material with insulating properties similar to rubber or other solid plastics. Neoprene foam is used in many applications and is produced in either closed-cell or open-cell form.
Although it may have been discovered earlier, chloroprene was largely developed by DuPont during the early 1930s, specifically with the formation of neoprene in mind. [4] The chemists Elmer K. Bolton , Wallace Carothers , Arnold Collins and Ira Williams are generally accredited with its development and commercialisation although the work was ...
DuPont has been awarded the National Medal of Technology four times: first in 1990, for its invention of "high-performance man-made polymers such as nylon, neoprene rubber, "Teflon" fluorocarbon resin, and a wide spectrum of new fibers, films, and engineering plastics"; the second in 2002 "for policy and technology leadership in the phaseout ...
1924 – Pyrex invented by scientists at Corning Incorporated, a glass with a very low coefficient of thermal expansion; 1931 – synthetic rubber called neoprene developed by Julius Nieuwland (see also: E.K. Bolton, Wallace Carothers) 1931 – Nylon developed by Wallace Carothers
Hugh Bradner was born in Tonopah, Nevada, on November 5, 1915, [2] but he was raised in Findlay, Ohio. [1] His father, Donald Byal Bradner, was briefly director of the Chemical Warfare Service at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal.
Wallace Hume Carothers (/ k ə ˈ r ʌ ð ər z /; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.
From the 1870s up to the onset of World War I (1914), the organic chemical industry of Germany was a world-leading force in research, development, production, and export; most organic compounds used in America, such as textile dyes and some medicines, were imported from Germany. [1]
Ira Williams (1894–1977 [1]) was an American chemist at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, who in the summer of 1930, [2] together with Wallace Carothers, Arnold Collins and F. B. Downing, made commercial Neoprene possible [3] by producing a soft, plastic form of chloroprene that could be processed by the rubber industry.