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...does a giant chemical company that made $1.8 billion last year with such products as bullet-stopping Kevlar and Nomex, a flame-resistant fiber, care about corporate social responsibility? Chad Holliday, DuPont's chairman and CEO, thinks it's the way to stay ahead globally. He spoke with TIME's ERIC ROSTON last month...
TIME How did DuPont "get religion...
TIME You helped write the recent National Academy of Sciences report on the U.S.'s declining scientific competitiveness. How does that trend affect DuPont...
...testing ideas like germ-resistant T shirts, air-conditioner filters and pillows. "We believe it fills a need that exists in the marketplace," says the unit's business manager, David Whitley. "It has value--and, bottom line, it works." AgION, for its part, is working with 60 companies, including DuPont and Reebok. "We're not introducing any new chemicals to the world," Trogolo points out. "We're just using silver contained in what is essentially sand." Only it's the sort of sand he'd like to see getting into everything...
Mention sunflowers and you probably think of the famous painting by Van Gogh or perhaps the tasty salad oil. But Valerie Dupont, a scientist at England's University of Leeds, thinks of hydrogen. Last summer Dupont and her team developed a method for extracting hydrogen using nothing but sunflower oil, air, water and two specialized catalysts. That development may help solve one of the chief problems slowing the advance of the much touted automobile fuel cell: how to provide a clean, renewable source of its hydrogen fuel. The process works by vaporizing oil and water, breaking them down and capturing...