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Ai Creates Materials that Will Transform the World

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In the middle of the 20th century, an engineer from DuPont worked with extremely corrosive gases when he noticed that one of the cylinders was not empty. Intrigued, he cut it in half. What he found inside was a white substance, slippery and incredibly resistant. He had been born, by accident, polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as teflon. Today, that material is in pans, space suits and heart valves. No one had imagined it before. His inventio…
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In the middle of the 20th century, an engineer from DuPont worked with extremely corrosive gases when he noticed that one of the cylinders was not empty. Intrigued, he cut it in half. What he found inside was a white substance, slippery and incredibly resistant. He had been born, by accident, polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as teflon. Today, that material is in pans, space suits and heart valves. No one had imagined it before. His inventio…

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Expansion broke the news in on Monday, July 21, 2025.
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