• Source: DuPont Experimental Station

The DuPont Experimental Station is the largest research and development facility of DuPont, located on the banks of the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware




Overview


The DuPont Experimental Station was founded as an effort to move the DuPont Company from gunpowder and explosives into chemistry.[1] The site overlooks the original powder mills upon which the company was founded – now Hagley Museum and Library. The Experimental Station is located east from Hagley Museum and west-southwest from Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware. The station serves as the primary research and development facility for DuPont. It is home to DuPont's Central Research and most other business units of DuPont are also represented on site. The Experimental Station is where many materials and products were developed by DuPont, including:

Neoprene – the world's first synthetic rubber
Nylon polyamide for fibers and engineering polymers for machine parts, gears, electrical systems and automobile air intake manifolds
Tyvek nonwovens for housewrap, envelopes, medical packaging, environmental protection and currency
Kevlar fiber for body armor and automobile tire reinforcement;
Mylar polyester film for packaging material and balloons
Corian solid surface materials for countertops, flooring and art.
Butacite polyvinyl butyral, the safety interlayer in laminated glass
Nomex fiber for firefighting equipment and other thermal protection applications
Simple crown ethers, which were invented by Charles J. Pedersen in 1967 which he won a Nobel Prize for the work in 1987
Herbicides of plant hormone
Inventions.
On the morning of January 24, 2007, President George W. Bush became the first US president to visit the Experimental Station.




References






External links


Timeline of discoveries at the DuPont Experimental Station
Experimental Station in the history of DuPont

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• DuPont (1802–2017)
• Asam perfluorooktanoat
• DuPont Experimental Station
• Experimental Station
• List of DuPont historic sites along Delaware Route 141
• List of DuPont Experimental Station inventions
• DuPont
• Wallace Carothers
• Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
• Charles J. Pedersen
• Qiana
• Tour DuPont