A tower in the shape of a giant test tube with flashing lights to simulate bubbling chemicals greeted visitors to DuPont’s “Wonder World of Chemistry” pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

A team of researchers at NYU have presented a new chemical reactor type that synthesizes a precursor for nylon production through electrosynthesis, rather than a thermal based reaction. The need for ...

With so many similarities between nylon 6 and 6/6 at a molecular level, evaluating bonds and subtle structural shifts explain how small differences can have a big impact on the final product. This is ...

Struggling with debt and a market swamped with overcapacity, the nylon 6,6 producer Ascend Performance Materials has declared bankruptcy in Texas. Ascend says that it is pursuing an easy restructuring ...

Toray Industries, Inc., announced it signed an agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd., to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from ...

In the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels, Genomatica announced the first commercial production of bio-based nylon. Companies that seize the economic and environmental advantages of ...

Reaction-injection molding (RIM) combines two lowviscosity liquid streams consisting of a reaction catalyst and initiators (containing mostly monomer) inside the mold. The resultant polymer grows in ...

The first pair of experimental nylon stockings made by Union Hosiery Company for Du Pont in 1937 resides in the Smithsonian collections. NMAH Major technological innovations such as gunpowder, GPS and ...

Rhodia is teaming up with mountaineering goods marketer Millet in a project to recycle nylon. The initial project aims to recycle used mountain-climbing rope into engineering plastic materials for ...