The material "Synthetic rubber (NBR) board" stored in the Science Museum of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Koganei City, Tokyo) has been certified as the 9th Chemical Society of Japan, together with the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. The certificate was presented at the 2018th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan on March 3, 21.
The "Chemical Heritage Certification Project" is one of the projects set up by the Chemical Society of Japan to preserve valuable historical materials related to chemical technology, and started in fiscal 2009.With the aim of certifying Japan's world-class cultural heritage related to chemistry and disseminating such information to society, 8 cases have been certified as chemical heritage in the past eight times.
The "Synthetic Rubber (NBR) Plate" in the collection of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology was produced on a trial basis around 1937 at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University.It was in the hands of Professor Junji Furukawa of the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, who was a developer for a long time, but in 1982, it was donated to the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University and the Textile Museum, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (now the Science Museum).
There are few materials related to synthetic rubber during the war, and this "synthetic rubber (NBR) plate" is valuable as a material showing that synthetic rubber was industrialized by the technology originally developed in Japan during the war, and it has become a chemical heritage. Appropriately certified as the 9th Chemical Society of Japan Chemical Heritage.
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology will release this "synthetic rubber (NBR) board" in the lobby on the 2018st floor of the museum from April to the end of June 4.
