Richard Yeo Swee Chye (Chinese: 楊瑞才) is an American scientist with 17 U.S. patents, best known for his research on disposable diapers.
"[2] At the time, Yeo was a senior research scientist working in Roswell, Georgia[3] for Kimberly-Clark,[1] makers of Huggies.
There's no odor -- the technicians wouldn't consent to work on a project like that -- and it can be any color we want.Yeo conducted extensive research and developed various disposable diapers and personal care products having new features: breathable back sheets, colorful/embossed backsheets, improved BM flaps and better BM containment, better body liners, flushable materials for constructing diapers, odor control, and better tampons.
From 1970-75, Yeo conducted doctorate thesis research on Nafion[6] under the supervision of Adi Eisenberg (Otto Maass Professor of McGill University).
[12] The commercial importance of Yeo's earliest studies of the unique swelling behavior of Nafion membrane was cited and described by Doyle and Rajendran in the Handbook of Fuel Cells as:[13]These early swelling studies are the benchmark for a number of more recent studies of the behavior of Nafion membranes when exposed to organic solvents as this topic has become of greater commercial importance with the development of processes for creating Nafion solutions through dissolution in organic solvent mixtures.