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Leo Hendrik Baekeland HonFRSE (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career in the United States. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907.
Bakelite was produced for the first time in 1872 by Adolf von Baeyer, though its use as a commercial product was not considered at the time. [6]Leo Baekeland was already wealthy due to his invention of Velox photographic paper when he began to investigate the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde in his home laboratory.
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It was originally used in electrical and decorative applications. Micarta was developed by George Westinghouse at least as early as 1910 using phenolic resins invented by Leo Baekeland. These resins were used to impregnate paper and cotton fabric which were cured under pressure and high temperature to produce laminates.
Bakelite, the first fully synthetic thermoset, was reported by Leo Baekeland using phenol and formaldehyde. 1912: After over 10 years research, Jacques E. Brandenberger develops a method for producing cellophane and secures a patent. [9] 1926: Waldo Semon and the B.F. Goodrich Company developed a method to plasticize PVC by blending it with ...
Leo Baekeland invented bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics. In 1909, American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan – who had studied in Europe under Walther Nernst and Max Planck – measured the charge of individual electrons with unprecedented accuracy through the oil drop experiment , in which he measured the electric ...
The world's first fully synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907, by Leo Baekeland, [8] who coined the term "plastics". [9] Dozens of different types of plastics are produced today, such as polyethylene , which is widely used in product packaging , and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), used in construction and pipes because of its ...
February 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation of the early plastic Bakelite, a hard thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, to the American Chemical Society. [ 4 ] Summer – Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch first demonstrate the Haber process , the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high ...