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The 12 pages that link to Wallace Carothers, each with the reason it gives.

• NylonRelated: He led the research team that developed nylon.

• DuPontRelated: His polymer research exemplifies how DuPont’s laboratories created commercial materials.

• IsopreneRelated: His research helped establish synthetic approaches to elastomers related to isoprene rubber.

• Nylon 6,6Related: Carothers's polymer research produced the chemistry underlying nylon 6,6.

• Synthetic polymerRelated: His work established major synthetic polymer families and clarified polymerization chemistry.

• CaprolactamRelated: His polyamide research helped establish the industrial context for nylon chemistry.

• NeopreneRelated: His team’s research at DuPont led to the discovery of polychloroprene.

• CyclohexanoneRelated: His nylon research helped create the market that drove cyclohexanone production.

• HexamethylenediamineRelated: His polymer research led to the nylon technology that created major demand for this monomer.

• ChloropreneRelated: He led the DuPont research team that developed commercial polychloroprene.

• PantyhoseRelated: His polymer research produced the nylon fiber used in early synthetic stockings.

• Paul FloryRelated: Carothers’s polymerization research supplied a central experimental context for Flory’s theories.