High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development Proceedings

According to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's (1740-1832) Mineralogy and Geology, "The history of science is science." A sesquicentennial later, one may state that the history of high performance polymers is the science of these important engineering polymers

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High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development Proceedings of the Symposium on the History of High Performance Polymers at the American Chemical Society Meeting held in New York, April 15-18, 1986.

Editors:

Raymond B. Seymour University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Gerald S. Kirshenbaum Celanese Engineering Resins Chatham, New Jersey

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© 1986 by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1986 This book has been registered with the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. For further information please contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., Salem, Massachusetts. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Symposium on the History of High Performance Polymers (1986 : New York, N.Y.) High performance polymers, their origin and development. Includes indexes. I. Polymers and polymerization - Congresses. I. Seymour, Raymond Benedict, 1912. II. Kirshenbaum, Gerald S. III. American Chemical Society Meeting (191st : 1986: New York, N.Y.) IV. Title. TPlO8l.S93 1986 668.9 86-24006 ISBN-13: 978-94-011-7075-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-011-7073-4 001: 10.1007/978-94-011-7073-4 Current printing (last digit) 10987654321

High Performance Polymers is dedicated to our wives, Frances Seymour and Edna Kirshenbaum

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Contents

Preface

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INTRODUCTION High Performance Polymers - Natural and Synthetic H. Mark (Polytechnic University)

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Engineering Plastics: The Concept that Launched an Industry Lawrence H. Gillespie, Jr. (DuPont)

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ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTICS

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Polyamides The History and Development of Nylon-66 Melvin I. Kohan (DuPont)

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History and Development of Nylon 6 Paul Matthies and Wolfgang F. Seydl (BASF)

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The History of Development of Nylons 11 and 12 G.B. Apgar and M.J. Koskoski (Atochem)

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Polyesters History - Aromatic Poly carbonates Daniel W. Fox (G. E.)

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The History of Poly(Butylene Terephthalate) Molding Resins Donal McNally and John S. Gall (Celanese)

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Injection Moldable PET Edward J. Deyrup (DuPont)

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History of Polyarylates Lloyd M. Robeson and James M. Tibbitt (Union Carbide)

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Acetals The History of Acetal Homopolymer Kenneth J. Persak and Richard A. Fleming (DuPont)

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Acetal Copolymer, A Historical Perspective Thomas J. Dolce and Francis B. McAndrew (Celanese)

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Styrenics A Path to ABS Thermoplastics William A. Pavelich (Borg-Warner)

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Styrene-Maleic Anhydride-Vinyl Monomer Terpolymers and Blends Raymond B. Seymour (University of Southern Mississippi)

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Sulfur-Containing Polymers History of Polyphenylene Sulfide H. Wayne Hill, Jr. (Phillips)

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The Development of Polysulfone and Other Polyarylethers R.A. Clendinning, A.G. Farnham, and R.N. Johnson (Union Carbide)

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Polysulfone - Early Market Development Activities M.E. Sauers, L.A. McKenna, and