Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont & Co. , two of the oldest companies in the United States, on Friday agreed to merge, creating a company with a combined market capitalization of $130 billion.

DuPont inventions have contributed to space explorations in the past. For example, on Apollo missions to the moon, 20 of the 21 layers in each space suit were made with DuPont materials ...

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Stephanie Kwolek, the DuPont scientist whose invention, Kevlar, has saved countless lives as the essential ingredient in body armor, has died. Kwolek died Wednesday in ...

Plunkett, a chemist at DuPont's Jackson research lab in New Jersey, made his discovery in the time-honored scientific way: as the result of a mistake, and with an assistant's help. Plunkett and ...

Her work accumulated 16 U.S. patents for DuPont. But the invention she is most proud of is Kevlar. “I hope I’m saving lives,” she told the American Chemists Society in 2007. “There are ...

(National Museum of American History) From the moment DuPont realized what kind of stretchy, durable, washable, dryable revolution it had synthesized, the company channeled its invention to women ...

Tennant was a West Virginia farmer whose family owned land near a DuPont factory on the Ohio River where the chemical giant made one of its signature inventions: Teflon nonstick and anti-stain ...

Kwolek, who died Wednesday at 90, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in 1965 invented ... Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Spicer was wearing a Kevlar vest ...

Teflon was accidentally discovered in 1938 by DuPont chemists while they were ... teflon • Teflon-coated yarn The post Teflon ...

the project's corporate sponsors provide technical expertise and real-world advice on how to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of successful inventions. "At DuPont, we are committed ...

DuPont inventions have contributed to space explorations in the past. For example, on Apollo missions to the moon, 20 of the 21 layers in each space suit were made with DuPont materials ...