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## A complete solution provider combining expertise in polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering.
## Technical Insights
Polymerdesign has 29 years of expertise in understanding the behavior of all types of polymeric materials, including plastics (both thermoset and thermoplastic), coatings and adhesives. Our experience runs the gamut from molecular design of new polymeric materials and structure-property relationships to processing, part design and applications development.
More than just consultants, polymerdesign provides customer-centric needs identification, market insight, commercialization, and intellectual property strategy.
Put polymerdesign’s expertise to work to solve your
toughest challenges today!
**Areas of expertise:**
* Molecular design of polymers
* Structure/property relationships
* Polymer Performance
* Chemical Resistance
* Mechanical properties – toughness and fracture resistance
* Creep and stress relaxation
* Electrical Properties
* Thermal Behavior
## Case Studies
## Challenge: A large chemical company wanted to expand their portfolio by increasing the heat resistance of their products but many approaches had been tried and failed.
**Solution:** Polymerdesign staff went to work to understand the requirements and possibilities, and a particularly strategic approach that was previously repeatedly dismissed was selected. This approach had been rejected for the wrong reasons, and the alignment of performance characteristics and available chemical streams made this a particularly attractive approach.
One potentially very attractive market for these products was in consumer housewares. What characteristics does the product need to work in these applications – what heat resistance is necessary? What compromises were customers making with the incumbent material and how can our material help solve their problems? Polymerdesign staff leaned in to solve these problems and more, leading to one of the most successful new polymers in industry history.
## Challenge: A materials company learned of a customer’s new use for their products but didn’t understand why.
**Solution:** Using an existing product to solve known needs is the core of applications development. Customer needs can be solved and new revenue earned quickly.
One unique application of polymeric materials in the medical device industry is the cold-bending, or swaging, of materials to hold two items in position or to act as a closure for containers.
Polymerdesign staff analyzed the usage of the company’s polymers to understand how it could be used in similar applications, and why it was chosen over competitive offerings. A complete translation package was built around these learnings leading to new opportunities at other accounts.
## Challenge: A company’s polymer product changed on scaleup and was no longer suitable for use by their prospective customers.
**Solution:**A high performance polymer manufacturer began producing a high temperature semicrystalline polymer based on a favorable market assessment. Several processes and variations on the process were available to manufacture this specific material, and small changes in composition of reactants can have a significant effect on the resultant product.
Product parameters such as the thermal properties can vary significantly from target as a result of changes in chemistry, and in this case, the measured glass transition temperature varied significantly. The root cause was understood as variation in the amount of cyclic oligomer generated, and the relationship between Tg and oligomer composition was used to model effects of process variation.
## Services
Through our own capability and through our network of partners, we offer not only analytical testing and services that complement our technical consulting insights, but the interpretation and application of those tests to solve your specific problems. Examples of services we can provide to help you innovate and solve your biggest technical challenges:
**Chemical resistance testing**
* Environmental Stress Cracking
* General chemical compatibility
**Thermal analysis**
* DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry)
* TGA (Thermogravimetric Analysis)
**Rheology and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis**
**Electrical Properties**
* Dielectric strength
* Dielectric constant
* Dielectric loss
**Mechanical properties**
* Fracture and fatigue
* Ultimate tensile properties
**Failure Analysis**
* Microscopy
* Part design
* Processing-related effects
## Applications research and development
Applications Research and Development is the vital link in the innovation process that connects the performance needs of the application to the chemistry of the material through the properties defined by that structure. Collaboration between siloed functions such as polymer, analytical and manufacturing chemists, materials scientists and engineers, marketing, and project management is vital.
Polymerdesign’s world-class application research and development capability brings these functions together to accelerate your innovation, combining deep structure property experience and material design capability with years of voice-of-the-customer expertise. The result? Solving your material design challenges quickly and developing truly differentiated products that satisfy your customer’s requirements.
 to see how polymerdesign can improve your materials innovation process!
## About Us
Polymerdesign was formed from the conviction that better insights are the lifeblood of innovation. Connections between customers, their needs and deep technical expertise can transform businesses through differentiated product development. Polymerdesign facilitates those connections and provides the expertise you need to solve your toughest innovation challenges.
Polymerdesign’s founder and chief technical resource is David S. Porter, who holds a Ph. D. in Chemistry and 29 years of experience working with polymers. David’s experience includes 20 years with Eastman Chemical Company as a research scientist, people leader, business manager and technology manager.
He is inventor and developer of Tritan™ copolyester as well as holder of 50 US patents. David has been named an American Chemical Society Hero of Chemistry for Tritan’s introduction, received Eastman’s Chairman and CEO Award, and has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Industrial Research and Development Award. He has broad and deep experience with polymeric materials, including structure/property relationships, mechanical, thermal and rheological behavior, accelerated testing and chemical resistance phenomena as well as intellectual property strategy and management, market and opportunity assessment, and applications research and development, including voice-of-the-customer interviews.
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