About
Dr. Chris E. Scott is President of Material Answers LLC. He specializes in material structure, properties, and processing. His work emphasizes thermoplastics, thermosets, blends, composites, and multicomponent formulations. He has extensive experience with manufacturing, product development, product design, and failure analysis. Systems investigated include plastics, coatings, paints, adhesives, rubbers, fibers, suspensions, emulsions, and pastes. In particular, Dr. Scott has published extensively on the topics of polymer processing and structure relationships, compounding and mixing in multiphase polymer systems, and structure and morphology development during polymer processing. He is the inventor on 11 U.S. patents, author of more than 30 articles in peer reviewed journals, author of 40 conference proceedings, and has presented more than 50 seminars to industry and government organizations.
Dr. Scott has conducted failure analysis investigations and developed product designs in a broad range of applications, including: automotive components, consumer products, medical devices, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, coatings, prints, construction materials, and packaging. Numerous material systems have been assessed relative to long term stability, aging, degradation, and chemistry. Collaborative projects have encompassed evaluation of environmental and human health issues in addition to classical accident and defect analysis.