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Phenolic resins have played an important role in industrial advancement for over 80 years. The term phenolic is applied to those materials formed during the condensation reaction between phenol or substituted phenols and formaldehyde. Although Adolph Baeyer1 first reacted phenol and an aldehyde in 1872 to produce a resinous material, and Arthur Smith was issued the first phenolic resin patent in 1899,2 it is Leo H. Baekeland who is considered the creator of the phenolic resin industry. He published a series of papers3, 4 beginning in 1905, and established the Bakelite Company in the U.S. in 1910. This eventually became a division of the Union Carbide Company in 1939.2 Over the years many scientists have helped make phenolic resin products an integral part of modern life. |
