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The initiator in the development of microporous materials and the first supplier of a water vapor permeable leather substitute was DuPont (USA). DuPont, encouraged by the success of Nylon®, a synthetic substitute for silk, from the early 1950s started to develop a substitute for the last natural product, leather. Leather, a material which, up to that point, had not yet been reproduced in its characteristics by man.
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Träubel, H. (1999). The Development of Water Vapor Permeable Materials: Patents and Publications. In: New Materials Permeable to Water Vapor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59978-1_30
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