PTFE was discovered serendipitously by Roy Plunkett of DuPont in 1938, while attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant, when the perfluorethylene polymerized in its storage container. DuPont patented...

Maximize corrosion resistance and reduce leadscrew surface impurities remaining from processing. Remove surface contaminations, such as iron particles left by cutting tools, that can form rust or act...

Plating is the general name of surface-covering techniques in which a metal is deposited onto a conductive surface. Plating is indispensable as a corrosion inhibitor. for the manufacture of computers,...

An electrochemical process which polishes a metal surface by removing a microscopic amount of material from the work piece. This process prepares metals for plating, anodizing or conversion coating...