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Partner with Dow MobilityScience to tackle material challenges. Through collaboration, we design mobility solutions that accelerate innovation.
At Dow, transformative innovation is our mission, and in our experience, we’ll get much further together - working in isolation is no longer going to work in the future.
Collaboration with like-minded mobility partners enables us to tap into one another’s deep expertise and incorporate the latest research, processes and developing technologies to help shape the mobility of tomorrow.
Watch to hear the importance of collaboration across the value chain – both in private and public sectors. Together we can help create a more sustainable, diverse, equitable and innovative future.
The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is a groundbreaking single-seater motorsport competition that uses only electric cars. Alongside our partners at Jaguar TCS Racing, we are accelerating material development in real time by introducing a wide range of technologies that advance safety, comfort, range, and low carbon solutions for automobiles on the track and off.
Among the primary challenges of maximizing EV performance is perfecting thermal management, from enhanced utilization of waste heat to more optimized cooling of key components. This is especially true for Jaguar TCS Racing’s I-TYPE 6 race car where the car is being pushed to the absolute limit.
As the Official Materials Science Partner of Jaguar TCS Racing, Dow’s MobilityScience™ engineers came alongside the racing team to identify key challenges to racecar performance, safety and efficiency, and determine the materials that may solve them. In the case of thermal management, this consisted of understanding their unique requirements and existing limitations.
In a relatively short time, Dow was able to help the team determine the thermal interface material that provided the greatest optimized performance in not just thermal conductivity, but resistance and durability as well. Dow’s solution was also able to help protect and regulate necessary components in the crucial powertrain, despite each component having its own preferred environment and temperature.
Dow engaged with Adient, a market leader for seating in the automotive sector, and Autoneum, the leading acoustics and thermal management supplier, to unlock the potential of the mass balance approach.
This approach enables OEM customers to benefit from the circularity value of the foam, meet demand for low carbon products and comply with high regulatory standards.
Driven by market demand, industry goals, and higher regulatory standards for reduced emissions and waste, automotive OEMs are actively seeking more circular solutions to help reach their sustainability goals. New viable physical and chemical recycling techniques to obtain new, high-quality feedstocks are needed.
Dow incorporated an advanced recycling mass-balance approach to the production of new polyurethane solutions based on a circular feedstock sourced from a waste product of the mobility sector that replaces virgin fossil-fuel based feedstock. New SPECFLEX™ C and VORANOL™ C product ranges are now offered to the mobility sector in collaboration with leading automotive suppliers Adient plc and Autoneum Holding AG.
Launched in 2021, SPECFLEX™ C and VORANOL™ C are designed to help automotive OEMs meet their market and regulatory demands for more circular products and reach their sustainability goals. Recycled feedstock is now being used to produce circular polyurethane-based products that match the performance of existing products while reducing the use of fossil feedstocks. Both products are certified by an independent mass-balance certification agency which validates that the quantity of polyurethane intermediates produced from recycled materials corresponds to the appropriate quantity of end-product, confirming that the reporting is accurate and auditable – a true service to society, following ISO 14044.
When collaboration leads to the creation of a first-to-market technology that also supports a more sustainable future – that is truly something special.
Dow introduced the world's first silicone based self-sealing tire material – an innovation developed in partnership with Bridgestone, a global leader in tires and rubber. This high-performance technology marks an acceleration in the companies’ joint journey towards carbon neutrality.
Roughly one-third of all new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. today are no longer equipped with a spare tire due to increased demand and availability of extended mobility solutions such as self-sealing and run-flat tire technologies. Unfortunately, most of the existing conventional sealant materials are difficult to separate from tires, which compromises tire repairability, end-of-life tire recycling, and tire material circularity.
After more than four years of joint research and development, in June 2022 Bridgestone introduced B-SEALS, the first-ever extended mobility self-sealing tire solution that can be easily recycled at end of life. This breakthrough technology - using newly developed SILASTIC™ self-sealing silicone material - provides excellent sealant performance in the event of a puncture without compromising sustainability.
B-SEALS sealant can be efficiently separated from tires to promote tire repairability and potentially extends the amount of time a tire is in service.
Bridgestone will initially offer tires with B-SEALS sealant technology to OEMs looking to reduce vehicle weight and improve overall efficiency as more electric vehicles come to market.
The leather industry market is being reshaped by the demand for environmental protection and sustainability.
Genuine leathers are luxurious with excellent hand-feel, but they are increasingly rejected by customers demanding animal-free products while synthetic leathers made from polyurethanes, polyvinylchlorides and silicone are often inferior alternatives.
LuxSense™ is a silicone-organic hybrid synthetic leather that combines the benefits of both to become the first synthetic leather that competes with authentic leather.
Innovative Chinese automotive startup HiPhi approached Dow Mobility’s team in China in 2019 about developing a revolutionary high-end, sustainable synthetic leather material for seats. They wanted it to match or exceed the finest Nappa leather in terms of touch, appearance, and experience without use of volatile solvents and plasticizers. Ultimately, they wanted a luxurious, odorless, low-carbon, environmentally friendly material for their first luxury electric SUV vehicle, the HiPhi X, launched in 2021.
LuxSense™ Silicone Synthetic Leather material meets specifications in mobility interiors, as well as other consumer applications. It delivers a luxurious sense of sight in terms of cleanliness, durability, color personalization and design freedom. LuxSense™ also avoids DMF and plasticizer usage, providing enhanced sustainability, as well as superior UV resistance and hydrolysis resistance that effectively prevents leather aging.
High flame retardancy is coupled with self-extinguishable features, and no harmful gasses are released in the event of a fire, making it a safe option for use in confined spaces. LuxSense™ adopts the innovative top coating technique to ensure fresh and non-tacky touch even in humid environments.
This low-carbon synthetic leather uses a green fabrication process, contributes to animal welfare, and meets customers’ social responsibility.
LuxSenseTM is odorless and low VOC, meeting auto regulation. The liquid silicone rubber technology avoids DMF and plasticizer usage.
Soft touch and skin-friendly, this non-tacky surface creates a more comfortable experience for customers in vehicles, yachts, and aviation.
In NASCAR, a driver’s car should be fast, but it also needs to be safe and reliable - and that’s where Dow comes in. Through prototype development, data analysis and experimentation, Dow and Richard Childress Racing’s (RCR) collaboration has maximized performance on and off the racetrack.
Watch to hear from driver Austin Dillion and the RCR team how our understanding of materials science is helping their vehicle cross the line faster, stronger, and first.
Bringing a concept to life that encapsulates the need for speed, performance, safety and innovation is no small feat – but with Dow, it’s possible. Richard Childress Racing approached Dow on Monday morning after a weekend race – the tire rubber of the No. 3 Dow Chevrolet was sticking to the wheel, slowing them down. They were hoping for a solution to prepare them for the following Sunday, so Dow got to work.
Our partnership with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) goes beyond the Diamond on the hood of the car, and much further than the finish line. Collaboration is at Dow’s core and allows us to utilize the power of materials science to advance the mobility industry. Together, scientists and engineers from RCR and our Materials Engineering Center (MEC) develop, test, and apply innovative technology ready for the racetrack to help increase performance and safety of the No. 3 Dow Chevrolet.
In a relatively short time, Dow helped the team with a quick fix for the sticking rubber and, with RCR, found a silicone mold release gel as a long-term solution. Under significant pressure and speed, value must be added safely and competitively. This silicone mold release gel works by creating a barrier between the wheel and any rubber flung up from the tires and track during the race. Keeping the tire rubber from sticking to the wheel maintains the wheel’s light weight design and prevents undesirable imbalance effects.
No matter the need, Dow’s MEC team brings extensive engineering knowledge and expertise to every unique task.
For nine years, Dow has honored the sacrifices of U.S. Veterans and their families by partnering with NASCAR’s Richard Childress Racing. The program began in 2015 with just over 350 veterans honored on the hood of the No. 3 Chevrolet and has grown to more than 2,100 this year.
This initiative is coordinated by one of Dow’s many Employee Resource Groups, Veterans Network (VETNET).
For years, the conventional approach to automotive LED headlamp design relied on mechanical actuators to position the beams of a single, controllable LED row. Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., a leading manufacturer of innovative automotive lighting components, envisioned a more dynamically adaptive solution that needn’t rely on mechatronic components.
Hella’s search for a solution led to Dow, where they explored several grades from the award-winning moldable optical silicones product family.
Incorporating 84 individually controllable LED pixels arrayed in three rows, the headlight dynamically distributes light in real time based on changing traffic, weather, and road conditions. It also enables the high beam function to be used more frequently to provide greater safety. Distributing light evenly from the module’s 84 LEDs required design of a complicated primary lens structure incorporating 84 light guides. The primary lens material needed to be highly flexible and durable to perform reliably during long exposure to high temperatures and photodensities.
With assistance from MobilityScience™ experts, Hella eventually specified SILASTIC™ MS-1002 Moldable Silicone which, exhibiting 72 Shore A, delivered the most suitable combination of hardness and elongation to produce complex lenses. This highly transparent material processes easily at room temperature and exhibits very low viscosity before cure. Combined with its high elongation and tear strength and easy demolding performance, these qualities significantly expand design possibilities for fabrication of complex shapes, micro-scale optical structures, multifunctional parts, and undercuts that are difficult to achieve with organic polymers. The outstanding thermal stability of SILASTIC™ MS-1002 Moldable Silicone was the most critical attribute.
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