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100+ Years of Plastics - Leo Baekeland and Beyond (Hardcover)
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100+ Years of Plastics - Leo Baekeland and Beyond (Hardcover)
Series: ACS Symposium Series, 1080
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This volume consists of written chapters taken from the
presentations at the symposium "100+ Years of Plastics: Leo
Baekeland and Beyond," held March 22, 2010, at the 239th ACS
National Meeting in San Francisco. The symposium celebrates the
100th anniversary of the formation of General Bakelite Corp., which
was preceded by Leo Baekland's synthesis of Bakelite in 1907 and
the unveiling of the Bakelite process in 1909. It is quite
reasonable to use the synthesis of Bakelite as the starting point
of the Age of Plastics. Indeed, Time magazine in its June 14, 1999,
issue on the 100 most influential people of the 20th century chose
Leo Baekeland and his Bakelite synthesis as the sole representative
of chemistry.
Leo Baekeland and Bakelite are the topics of the first four
chapters of this volume. The first two chapters come from the
perspective of Baekeland family members. Carl Kaufmann is related
to the Baekeland family through marriage and is the author of the
only full-length biography of Baekeland, published as a master's
thesis from the University of Delaware. As a family member Kaufmann
had access to all of Baekeland's papers. This first chapter (Leo H.
Baekeland) is not only a biographical sketch, but an exploration of
Baekeland's effect on the chemical industry. Hugh Karraker is
Baekeland's great-grandson, and his chapter (A Portrait of Leo H.
Baekeland) provides a family picture of the great inventor. Gary
Patterson's chapter (Materia Polymerica: Bakelite) goes into the
history of Bakelite chemistry, while Burkhard Wagner's contribution
(Leo Baekeland's Legacy-100 Years of Plastics) covers the history
of Bakelite manufacture through time and space, finishing with a
description of another Baekeland legacy, the Baekeland Award given
through the North Jersey Section of the ACS.
In later chapters, Les Sperling (History of Interpenetrating
Polymer Networks Starting with Bakelite-Based Compositions) covers
the improvements in interpenetrating networks. James Economy and Z.
Parkar (Historical Perspectives on Phenolic Resins and
High-Temperature Aromatic Polyesters of p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid and
Their Copolyesters) follow the paths of resoles, novolaks, and
related chemicals.
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