Cellulose acetate was first prepared by Paul Schützenberger in 1865. It took another 29 years before Charles Cross and Edward Bevan patented a process for its manufacture. At about the same time, ...

While we are often eager to look out for potentially revolutionary discoveries in terms of fresh new materials, the substances that we have been exposed to for decades seem to attract less of our ...

Sometimes I’m asked how the ideas for these columns come about. In this case, it was seeing a discarded overhead projector. That brought back memories of my first teaching experience in 1973 when ...

New cellulose carbamates and cellulose acetate carbamates were prepared by classical addition reaction of isocyanates with alcohols. A Telomerization technique was used to make the grafted molecules ...

Wacker Chemie has developed a process for making vinyl acetate, a key ingredient in its polymer dispersions, from cellulosic materials. Wacker first converts cellulose into ethanol in a fermentation ...

This collection consists of one onion skin copy of Edward C. Worden's Report No. 10086. This collection consists of one onion skin copy of Edward C. Worden's Report No. 10086. This report was ...

People are smoking less than they used to. That’s good news for public health. But for the few chemical firms that make the cellulose acetate fibers used in cigarette filters, the decline poses a long ...

We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty subjective, it usually boils down to a combination of looks and feel. In our opinion, the king of both these ...