We help our clients
surmount polymer
and composite product and process technology
challenges, as well as problems in selected areas of
chemical technology, by providing focused and cost-effective
services.
Polymers and composites
manifest a great variety of phasic behaviors, morphologies, and
complexities related to the nature and strength of the interfaces
between their phase domains. They are used in many different
technologies and end use applications. Our ability to provide
comprehensive solutions to problems over this broad technology space
is founded upon our depth of understanding of materials science
and engineering combined with a wealth of experience.
We
will provide you the quality of services that you require and
deserve from a team of professionals who care about your specific
needs and who have the ability to address these needs
successfully.
Our
capabilities include the expertise of our consultants, a
state-of-the-art product
research and manufacturing laboratory, an
ISO-9001 certified analytical
laboratory, a composite material testing
laboratory; and a network of additional resources
for experimental work, business, market and technical
information research, and software
development.
Please
click on FracBlack™and Syntho-Glass XT™ for examples of
major new products that we have helped two of our clients
develop.
Please contact us now at (989)631-9237 or info@polymerexpert.biz or
use our online form to discuss your
polymer and composite product and process challenges. The
first consultation session is always provided free of
charge.
If
you prefer to learn more about what we do and how we do it
before you contact us, please see the further information
and links provided below.
Further Information
Product research and
development: We save our clients both time and
money by helping them navigate through all stages of product research
and development. Depending upon the client’s
needs, our involvement can range anywhere from
providing technology and market opportunity
assessments to exploratory research and development
(ideation and concept shaping)
through help in product development and
prototyping and in patenting
inventions. In addition to our own in-house
expertise, extensive laboratory
equipment and facilities are available through one
of our strategic partners to help address the needs of our clients
in a comprehensive manner. We also
provide technical writing services
needed by our clients in their product and process research,
development and marketing
efforts.
Material selection
and design: We
solve polymer and composite material selection and
design problems by
using the most cost-effective possible combination of qualitative
insights, database searches, and quantitative modeling. Please
send an email message to freestuff@polymerexpert.biz with "Polymer Modeling in Industry" on the subject
line to obtain a copy of a presentation by Dr.
Bicerano (containing many examples) on this subject. We
also have strategic partnerships to provide product
development and manufacturing laboratory and analytical
laboratory resources, as well as polymer modeling software products and
services. Through this combination
of in-house expertise and alliances, we are able to provide
comprehensive solutions to your material selection and design
needs.
Material
testing and characterization:State-of-the-art
polymer, composite and blend characterization
techniques and equipment, a team
of world-class analytical scientists, and the credibility provided
by ISO-9001
certification,
are all available to our clients from our strategic
partner for analytical
laboratory services. We provide our
consulting expertise in working closely with you to ensure that
the most appropriate tests are performed and that their results are
interpreted and utilized as effectively as
possible.
Prediction of polymer properties:
The rapid
prediction of key polymer properties via empirically-based
quantitative structure-property relationships
(QSPR) is often the modeling approach that delivers the best value
in addressing polymer research and development problems.B&A has formed a strategic partnership with a
software company to combine Dr. Bicerano’s world-renowned QSPR
expertise and skills with our partner’s proven effectiveness in
commercial-quality software implementation, and thus provide
our clients powerful generic and customized QSPR software products and
services.
Chemical and plastic process
modeling:
We provide thermodynamics,
physical property, and chemical and plastic process
modelingservices, to help our clients improve the
efficiency, product quality
and yield of their manufacturing
processes. Industry-standard commercial software,
licensed from Aspen Technologies, is used as our main tool in this
work. After building the process models, we help our clients
implement these models in their plant operations.
Scientific and engineering software
applications: We develop, maintain,
interface and support software applications,
on computers using a wide variety of operating systems (Windows,
OpenVMS, UNIX, LINUX), with applications software written in many
different programming languages (Fortran, C, Excel VBA, Mathematica,
FrontPage, HTML).
Technical
project management: We provide two types
of project
management services. We identify academic and
national laboratory resources that can help our clients, and
work with our clients in planning and monitoring their external
research and development partnership with such organizations.
We also help our clients in forming and managing effective technical
project teams within their own
organizations.
Expert
witnessing:We provide expert witnessing
services in patent infringement and product
liability lawsuits.Our clients can count on our in-depth appreciation of the
complexities and subtleties of polymer structure, fabrication and
performance, and on the outstanding analytical laboratory
facilities and expertise that are available through one
of our strategic partnership for materials testing and
characterization, to serve their needs well in such adversarial
situations.
