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DuPont Experimental Station

The DuPont Experimental Station is the largest research and development facility of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.[1] Located on the banks of the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, it is home to some of the most important discoveries of the modern chemical industry.[2][3] The Experimental Station is a more recent part of the DuPont legacy and is located on the DuPont Historic Corridor.

The Experimental Station marked its 100th anniversary in 2003. It was founded as an effort to move the DuPont Company from gunpowder and explosives into the new age of chemistry.[1] The site overlooks the original powder mills upon which the company was founded - now Hagley Museum and Library, a nonprofit educational institution documenting the history of DuPont business and technology. The Experimental Station is east from Hagley Museum and west-southwest from the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.

The Experimental Station is the birthplace of many of the innovative materials and products developed by DuPont since 1903, including:

Neoprene - the world's first synthetic rubber; Nylon polyamide for fibers and engineering polymers for machine parts, gears, electrical systems and even automobile air intake manifolds;[4] Tyvek nonwovens for housewrap, envelopes, medical packaging, environmental protection and currency; Kevlar fiber for body armor and automobile tire reinforcement;[5][6] Mylar polyester film for packaging material and balloons;[7] Corian solid surface materials for countertops, flooring and art;[8] Butacite polyvinyl butyral, the safety interlayer in laminated glass;[9] and Nomex fiber for firefighting equipment and other thermal protection applications. Simple Crown ethers were invented by Charles J. Pedersen in 1967, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1987. There is a plaque at the Experimental Station marking the location of the lab where his work took place.

On the morning of January 24, 2007, President George W. Bush became the first president to visit the Experimental Station.[11] He saw examples of how DuPont is putting science to work to provide products for agricultural energy crops, feedstock processing and advanced biofuels such as ethanol and bio-butanol. He also viewed other alternative energy sources and technologies dealing with energy conservation. These are all part of DuPont’s sustainable growth mission.

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