100+ years of plastics
Subtitle: Leo Baekeland and beyond
By: E. Thomas Strom, Seth C. Rasmussen, editor[s] ; sponsored by the ACS Division of History of Chemistry
Contributors: American Chemical Society. Division of Medicinal Chemistry
Series: ACS symposium series -- 1080
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780841226777
Subjects: Technical Chemistry; Plastics; History
Other titles: 100 plus years of plastics; One hundred plus years of plastics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leo H. Baekeland; title: A portrait of Leo H. Baekeland; title: Materia polymerica : bakelite; title: Leo Baekeland's legacy : 100 years of plastics; title: History of interpenetrating polymer networks starting with bakelite-based compositions; title: Historical perspectives on phenolic resins; title: High temperature aromatic polyesters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid and their copolyesters; title: In their own words : plastic pioneers in the chemical heritage foundation oral history archives; title: History of polyethylene; title: Electrically conducting plastics : revising the history of conjugated organic polymers; title: Polymeric biomaterials : a history of use in musculoskeletal regenerative and reconstructive medicine.