100+ Years of Plastics: Leo Baekeland and Beyond

E. Thomas Strom, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Seth C. Rasmussen, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota

A history of Leo Baekeland and his Bakelite synthesis-the starting point of the Age of Plastics

PREFACE ; 1. LEO H. BAEKELAND ; CARL B. KAUFMANN ; 2. A PORTRAIT OF LEO H. BAEKELAND ; HUGH KARRAKER ; 3. MATERIA POLYMERICA: BAKELITE ; GARY D. PATTERSON ; 4. LEO BAEKELAND'S LEGACY - 100 YEARS OF PLASTICS ; BURKHARD E. WAGNER ; 5. HISTORY OF INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS STARTING WITH BAKELITE-BASED COMPOSITIONS ; L. H. SPERLING ; 6. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES OF PHENOLIC RESINS ; JAMES ECONOMY AND ZEBA PARKAR ; 7. HIGH-TEMPERATURE AROMATIC POLYESTERS OF P-HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID AND THEIR COPOLYESTERS ; JAMES ECONOMY AND ZEBA PARKAR ; 8. IN THEIR OWN WORDS: PLASTIC PIONEERS IN THE CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVES ; JAMES G. TRAYNHAM ; 9. THE HISTORY OF POLYETHYLENE ; MEHMET DEMIRORS, PH.D. ; 10. ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING PLASTICS: REVISING THE HISTORY OF CONJUGATED ORGANIC POLYMERS ; SETH C. RASMUSSEN ; 11. POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS: A HISTORY OF USE IN MUSCULOSKELETAL REGENERATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTIVE MEDICINE ; WEN-BIN ZHANG, STEPHEN Z. D. CHENG, AND MICHAEL J. YASZEMSKI ; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX