Life. Improved by DuPont Science
In recent DuPont commercials, scientists share the ways that DuPont science is improving our daily lives. Click on the links to find out how DuPont innovations are making our lives better, safer, and healthier.
Today's Mars Exploration Rovers – Spirit and Opportunity – are enabled by materials from DuPont Electronic Technologies. Materials include almost 70 yards each of flexible cable circuits made of thin DuPont™ Pyralux® laminates and composites and pressure-sensitive tape made of DuPont™ Kapton® polyimide film to control vibration. The Pyralux® flexible circuits were made using Riston® dry film photoresists and ImageMaster™ phototooling films.
The operating room is the last place doctors and nurses want to be distracted by what they're wearing. DuPont has created a family of innovative medical fabrics – like DuPont™ Softesse™, DuPont™Suprel™, and DuPont™ Acutrel™ – that go beyond increased protection and safety to provide the confidence and comfort medical professionals need to stay in control and focus on what they do best. In addition, Pollack International's Umbicut® – pacaged in DuPont™ Tyvek® – offers an inexpensive, disposable, sterile way to cut umbilical cords.
With an offering of more than 60 product lines, DuPont offers an unparalleled breadth of expertise andmaterials for advancement in automotive safety systems . From airbag fiber and film technology to engineering polymers, from energy absorbing materials to laminated sidelites, from microcircuit materials to displays technology, DuPont can help you bring your safety innovations to life.
DuPont Filaments has been providing premium quality filaments to the oral care industry for over 60 years. Current filaments come in various sizes, shapes and colors for the broad range of electric and manual toothbrushes, interdental brushes, floss threaders and tongue brushes.
DuPont Secure Environmental Treatment (SET) in New Jersey is the world's largest commercial and industrial wastewater treatment facility. Our facility can handle up to 40 million gallons of wastewater every day – quickly, safely, and cost-effectively. DuPont™ Oxone® pool and spa oxidizer is the active ingredient in most commercially available "non-chlorine shock" products. These products are available at professional pool and spa retail stores nationwide, under a variety of well-known brand names.
The typical handheld device contains up to 14 DuPont products. DuPont Electronic Technologies helps make products like cell phones smaller and more durable, while allowing them to do more, faster and better .
DuPont materials and technologies answer today's need for convenient self-service shopping, helping deliver cleaner, more attractive... and fresher tasting... foods and beverages.
DuPont offers several categories of laminated glass interlayer, such as DuPont™ Butacite®, DuPont™ SentryGlas®, and DuPont™ SentryGlas® Plus. Each features advanced technology in design and engineering that can reduce glare and noise, save energy, increase privacy, and protect people and property. Glass laminated with Butacite® PVB (polyvinyl butyral) interlayer will not shatter SentryGlas® composite resistant to breakage from windblown debris and intrusion by thieves. DuPont™ SentryGlas® Plus interlayer is the latest in a long line of products offered by DuPont for use in laminated safety glass. In response to architectural and transportation industry demands for tougher window systems with glass on both the inner and outer surfaces, DuPont has introduced SentryGlas® Plus ionoplast interlayer.
DuPont™ Hytrel® thermoplastic polyester elastomers provide a winning combination for many parts and components. They offer the flexibility of rubber, the strength of plastic, and the processibility of thermoplastic.
The global population grows by 200,000 people daily. Rapacious insects and weeds confront productive farmland. Deadly pathogens target processed food. In short, the world is full of challenges to its food supply. And, every day DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition meets those challenges, working to assure that the food supply is sustainable, safe and shielded from natural threats.
Every day, DuPont helps its customers outpace the competition by bringing the miracles of Science™ to automotive design and development, providing safety, durability, performance, and styling.
Using a powerful combination of technologies – brilliant digital inks, an advanced color control and management system, and state-of-the-art ink jet printers – DuPont has responded to customer needs with DuPont™ Artistri™ digital printing for textiles. Artistri™ brings new opportunities to the design and production of textiles and apparel with digital textile printing technology.
Consumers will find DuPont technologies and materials enabling personal digital assistants (PDAs), video camcorders, laptop computers and digital cameras, among others.
8th Continent soy milk, made with Solae™ soy protein, is an excellent source of calcium, which plays a positive role in maintaining overall bone health. Each serving provides vitamins D, A, B12 and riboflavin – nutrients important for good health. Also, 8th Continent Light soymilks – boasting 50 percent fewer carbohydrates and 25 percent fewer calories than skim milk. Considerable evidence supports a role for soy protein in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of adults.
DuPont™ Elvanol® polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH, sometimes also referred to as PVA) is a water-soluble synthetic polymer with excellent film-forming, emulsifying, and adhesive properties. This versatile polymer offers outstanding resistance to oil, grease and solvents, plus high tensile strength, flexibility, and high oxygen barrier. DuPont™ Elvanol® is one of the packaging ingredients which allows the dissolvable package innovation.
DuPont electronic materials make products – like MP3 players – smaller and more durable, while allowing them to have more capacity and better performace.
Guitar manufacturers use ChromaClear® G2-4500S™ from DuPont Performance Coatings to get the look of vintage lacquer. The product dries faster than any other force-dry clear in the automotive refinish industry, and offers superb buffability. The clear finish is also tough enough to withstand the everyday handling and abuse a guitar must take. They also use DuPont™ ChromaPremier® basecoat colors.
Intricate double bass drum patterns can be played with just one foot using the Duallist® bass drum pedal, made of DuPont™ Zytel®.
Today, all of the high-quality products in REMO's 15 distinct drumhead lines for drumset, concert, marching and world percussion instruments are made with DuPont Teijin Films polyester film.
Consumers will find DuPont technologies and materials enabling personal digital assistants (PDAs), video camcorders, laptop computers and digital cameras, among others.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont, is bringing the world a new generation of seeds that will make our crops and yields strong, while reducing the environmental impact. DuPont Crop Protection Products are reducing the detrimental effect of weeds, fungus and insects on our agricultural output; and DuPont/Bunge joint venture the Solae Company – makers of Solae™ brand soy protein – are dedicated to finding ways to bring the health benefits of soy to the world.
Marketers rely on DuPont packaging solutions for efficient food distribution, longer shelf life, better protection, and enhanced consumer appeal.
The Solae Company is an alliance between DuPont and Bunge Limited to bring more great tasting, nutritious soy-foods to the marketplace. As more and more consumers are discovering the many health benefits of consuming soy, a growing number of food manufacturers have introduced new and innovative products using Solae™ soy ingredients.
Solae™ soy protein appeals to our desires for good-tasting, health-enhancing, environmentally friendly food products.
The BAX® system from DuPont Qualicon is a fast, accurate DNA-based method for detecting bacteria in raw ingredients, finished products and environmental samples. It helps keep the food supply safe. DuPont packaging is also helping keep food fresh and providing longer-lasting protection.
