100+ years of plastics : Leo Baekeland and beyond /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 2011.
Description:	xi, 193 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ACS symposium series ; 1080 ACS symposium series ; 1080.
Subject:	Baekeland, L. H. -- (Leo Hendrik), -- 1863-1944. Baekeland, L. H. -- (Leo Hendrik), -- 1863-1944. Plastics -- History. Chemistry, Technical. Chemistry, Technical. Plastics. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8743688

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Varying Form of Title:	100 plus years of plastics One hundred plus years of plastics
Other authors / contributors:	Strom, E. Thomas. Rasmussen, Seth C. American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry.
ISBN:	9780841226777 (alk. paper) 0841226776 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Leo H. Baekeland
A portrait of Leo H. Baekeland
Materia polymerica : bakelite
Leo Baekeland's legacy : 100 years of plastics
History of interpenetrating polymer networks starting with bakelite-based compositions
Historical perspectives on phenolic resins
High temperature aromatic polyesters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid and their copolyesters
In their own words : plastic pioneers in the chemical heritage foundation oral history archives
History of polyethylene
Electrically conducting plastics : revising the history of conjugated organic polymers
Polymeric biomaterials : a history of use in musculoskeletal regenerative and reconstructive medicine.

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