Blog Posts

Oxygen is an awesome element. It’s essential for life, fuels combustion reactions that drive our cars and warm our houses,...

As much as we love polymers and all the amazing things you can use them for, we have to admit...

If you’ve ever had the thoroughly frustrating experience of trying to clean up spilled maple syrup off a floor, table...

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” William Blake said that. Who would have thought that an 18th Century British poet...

It seems like practically everyone has a favorite crime drama, whether it’s “CSI,” “Law and Order,” or “Criminal Minds.” They all follow...

Chemistry and baking have a lot in common. In both disciplines, the ingredients you add (or leave out), and the...

A hundred years is an impressive age … for a tree, a bottle of wine, an historic building, a business...

A friend once took her toddler to a theme park, unaware that the park included a water attraction for tots....

It’s not all work here at Polymer Solutions. For example, we recently took the Lay’s Potato Chip challenge and field...

On my way to work recently the “Kayaks on Sale” sign caught my eye. I really like to kayak, and usually...

The melt flow index (MFI) is a measure of the mass of polymer that is extruded through a capillary die...

This guest post was written by Prabhat N. Shukla, Ph.D., President of Fluorotherm Polymers Inc. The impressive growth of the medical...