eAutomotive Update, Vol. 6, Issue 1

Volume 6, Issue 1 - March 2011

Design Insights, Lightweight Vehicles, Like Leather But Better--Bayer MaterialScience LLC

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Automotive Materials: Design Insights
Special to e-Automotive Update

Professor Imre Molnar, Dean, College for Creative Studies in Detroit, has a finger on the pulse of yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s automotive design reverberations. In this issue, Professor Molnar provides the first in a series of guest columns detailing the influence of materials science on automotive design.

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Mazda MX-0: 1,000 Pounds or Bust

For Mazda’s MX-0 concept vehicle, the lightweighting capabilities of Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s materials provided an avenue for designing tomorrow’s fuel-efficient alternative materials vehicle – weighing only 999 pounds – with technology commercially available today.

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Like Leather but Better: Waterborne Synthetic Textiles

High-solids, waterborne polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) from Bayer MaterialScience now complement traditional PUDs to create soft, high-performance synthetic leather with economic and environmental benefits. Impranil® PUDs deliver all of the required performance with a lower environmental impact. After all, it’s what’s inside that counts.

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