How are Maple Syrup and Polymers Used in Medical Devices Alike? Viscosity
If you’ve ever had the thoroughly frustrating experience of trying to clean up spilled maple syrup off a floor, table...
Method development: The Key to Better Test Results & Long Term Cost Savings
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” William Blake said that. Who would have thought that an 18th Century British poet...
What You Need to Know About Forensic Engineering
It seems like practically everyone has a favorite crime drama, whether it’s “CSI,” “Law and Order,” or “Criminal Minds.” They all follow...
Meet Carbon Black: The Ubiquitous Polymer Additive
Chemistry and baking have a lot in common. In both disciplines, the ingredients you add (or leave out), and the...
Is USP 231 showing its age? Why a 100-year-old standard is going to be obsolete
A hundred years is an impressive age … for a tree, a bottle of wine, an historic building, a business...
Hydrophilic polymers: Where cool science meets baby’s bottom
A friend once took her toddler to a theme park, unaware that the park included a water attraction for tots....
Packaging the Chip Challenge Flavors
It’s not all work here at Polymer Solutions. For example, we recently took the Lay’s Potato Chip challenge and field...
Producing Plastic Products: Why the Price Tag?
On my way to work recently the “Kayaks on Sale” sign caught my eye. I really like to kayak, and usually...
The Value of Melt Flow Index Testing
The melt flow index (MFI) is a measure of the mass of polymer that is extruded through a capillary die...
The Impact of Fluoropolymers on the Medical Device Industry
This guest post was written by Prabhat N. Shukla, Ph.D., President of Fluorotherm Polymers Inc. The impressive growth of the medical...
HFIP: Not Your Mother’s Isopropyl Alcohol
Many of us can recall a time that we were the target of the trite phrase, “This is going to...
Spectroscopy and the science of fireworks
The science behind fireworks is far more interesting than that of other, simpler explosives.