Polymers Expert Witnesses
What is a polymers expert witness?
Polymers expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in materials science, polymer science, chemical engineering, and/or organic chemistry. The selected expert may be associated with an industry organization such as the American Chemical Society, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and/or the IEEE.
What types of cases require a polymers expert witness?
A polymers expert witness often provides expertise in intellectual property matters, such as U.S. patent infringement or trade secret dispute. A polymer scientist could also be called in on a product liability case, product development dispute, or personal injury matter.
What litigation support work might a polymers expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services could include research and authoring expert reports, failure analyses, depositions, and courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek a polymer or plastics expert for pre-litigation consultant work.
Whether the case involves a medical device, plastic pipes (PVC), epoxy, polymer characterization, adhesives, rheology, polymer synthesis, coatings, sealants, or acrylics, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a polymers expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience. The firm has an earned reputation of providing candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience to support each unique project.
Related Disciplines
Polymers Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Polymers experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Polymers landscape.
Expert Witness #235343
This expert has many years of experience as an R&D researcher and Failure Analyst with a chemical company, culminating as Research Fellow and as Chief Metallurgist. This expert's focus is in materials processing, design, and process control in manufacturing and industry. This expert's areas of expertise include ceramics, metal alloys, polymers, coatings, manufacturing process and litigation support.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #242473
This expert is an experienced expert in the field of specialty chemicals including, but not limited to, a variety of inorganic minerals and solid polymers. This expert has an extensive background and understanding of chemical reactions that occur at interfaces of solids and liquid-solid interfaces. This expert has many years of experience with the reactions of silane coupling agents with inorganic solids such as clays and silica, and is a published author on the flow behavior of polymers.
For many years, this expert has consulted for corporations involved in the development, optimization, patenting, marketing and quality control of new and existing products and processes.
This expert has served as a forensic expert witness in a multitude of disciplines including patent analysis/infringement, trade secret litigation, product & process issues, OSHA Regulations, Codes & Standards, physical chemistry and material properties. This expert has provided Federal and State depositions and courtroom testimony numerous times. This expert has been deposed in two intellectual property cases, both of which were successful for this expert's client. This expert has also consulted for medical device companies engaged in development of novel surgical techniques, and is a named inventor on 23 patents.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #250995
This expert specializes in the development of films for a variety of applications which require an understanding of film processes, property testing and film specifications as they relate to end use, and film formulations. This includes a firm understanding of polymer structure property relationships. This expert has developed film formulations and structures for several applications which require stability during processing, storage and in outdoor applications. During this expert's years in polymer science this expert has set up labs to characterize films, films surfaces, additive packages, and defect analyses. This expert has gained an understanding of degradable mechanisms including photo and biodegradable. This expert was a member of the Degradable Polymer Council as well as member of the technical committee for the Council of Solid Waste Solutions, now the American Chemistry Council (ACC). This expert has developed biodegradable and photodegradable polymers, researched composting films and recycling of plastics, and gave numerous presentations on the topics to customers and suppliers. This expert has served as an expert witness and was deposed in a major law suite dealing with films and their properties by two major film and resin manufacturers. In another case, a film was degrading in its end use and it turned out not to be the formulation but plant storage.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #251009
This expert is a globally recognized polymer technology expert and industry leader with many years of experience with an outstanding record of achievements in the research and development of vinyl and non-vinyl polymers, color concentrates, and the establishment of industry standards. As the Principal of a technical consultancy, this expert is highly sought-after for expertise in problem solving, product innovation in vinyl plastics, thermoplastics, and processing. The holder of several patents in the area of weather resistant plastic composite technologies for outdoor exposures, this expert provides technical support to manufacturing plants and customers and represented companies in industry organizations. This expert has assisted manufacturing plants in developing quality control procedures and optimization of manufacturing processes for improved performance. Additionally, this expert has investigated and successfully resolved numerous customers' technical problems, physical properties retention, product distortion problems in end use exterior applications; extrusion problems including poor surface characteristics, brittleness during profile cutting and fabrication, extruder overload, and compounding problems, such as inconsistency in compound performance. This expert has also performed raw materials evaluations, dimensional stability studies, and field failure analysis. Further, this expert has performed weatherability testing including, heat build-up, dimensional stability, long term performance, degradation, stabilization, impact modification, and reinforcement. This expert has served as an Expert witness in multiple product, material, compounding, and application patent / intellectual property cases. This expert has been deposed and testified.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #257934
This expert's multidisciplinary expertise and many years of broad technical experience cross-cuts fields of electrical engineering, optics, materials engineering, and physical sciences. From an electrical engineering perspective, this expert has extensive experience in solar cells, light-emitting diodes and displays, capacitors, memories, transistors, sensors, and circuits. This expert's materials background includes organic and inorganic semiconductors, metals, nanomaterials, biomaterials, thin-films, and material interfaces. This expert specializes in device physics, materials and thin-film processing, device fabrication, improving functional performance, analyzing failures, and understanding process-structure-property-performance relationships across material, component, device, and system levels. This expert's characterization tool skill-set includes a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques.
Prior to becoming a consultant, this expert was a university professor as head of the Nano Architectonics and Organic Electronics Laboratory, and also worked a National Laboratory. During this period, this expert developed new materials processing approaches and optical architectures to improve efficiency of thin-film solar cells. This expert's photovoltaic material expertise includes conjugated polymers/molecules, cadmium telluride, perovskite, and silicon material systems. This expert also made multiple contributions in the area of defect characterization in semiconductor thin-films. Other key works include projects on titania based memory devices, optical and bio(chemical) sensors, organic thin-film transistors, organic light-emitting displays, and photonic components such as waveguides, anti-reflection coatings, transparent electrodes, and plasmonic structures. For characterization purposes, this expert has extensively utilized a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques. During doctoral studies, this expert worked with materials such as organic semiconductors, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, nanotemplates, and biomolecules on developing functional hybrids and embodiments pertinent to consumer electronics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.
This expert has assisted clients in developing metrology solutions for opto-electronic thin-films, investigating performance bottlenecks in solar cells, and characterizing new synthetic materials for consumer electronic device applications. This expert has also consulted for edtech clients and has experience teaching courses on electric circuits, semiconductor materials and devices, flexible electronics, and energy systems. This expert has published 50 peer-reviewed research articles in top international journals and presented work in major international conferences. This expert has received several awards and honors, including the nationally prestigious US National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Most of this expert's consulting work is non-litigation failure and design, however, this expert is currently working as the testifying expert on an unrelated solar matter. This expert has written expert reports.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #218101
This expert is a Registered Professional Engineer with many years of experience in the biotechnology field. This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering, is an ASME Fellow, and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Currently, this expert is the Principal and Founder of an engineering consulting firm that focuses on providing support for early stage medical device and technology companies. Specializing in mechanical engineering design and behavior of biomedical devices, shape memory metals, bio-absorbable polymers and MEMs, this expert consults actively in these areas, as well as in failure analysis and reliability. This expert has extensive experience in the use of finite element analysis and simulation of structures, heat transfer, fluid flow and Mechanical Design for Reliability. This expert led the design and development of diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and has skills honed in researching and analyzing IP and competing technologies.
This expert has direct experience with implantable, cardiovascular stents, with early work related to finite element analysis and fatigue life prediction as part of the client company's FDA IDE submission. Early projects were generally balloon expandable coronary stents and the analysis went through the steps of roll-down from the as-manufactured geometry, balloon expansion, balloon deflation, and coronary cyclic pressure fluctuations. This expert also worked with self-expanding stents. Other projects involved devices such as stent-grafts for AAA application and stents for other applications such as renal, etc. Failure analysis projects involving stents came along periodically with issues such as fatigue failures during life testing, corrosion, or other metallurgical issues. Litigation projects involving stents followed. The cases were generally patent matters involving various aspects of stent technology and design. This expert has served as a testifying expert witness in medical device patent litigation and has provided deposition and trial testimony for a total of 18 IP cases, 7 IP Depositions (>20 depositions total), 1 IP Trial (4 Trials all together), and 7 IPR Declarations. This expert has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at a prestigious universities, including courses on Materials, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Design.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #124241
This polymers and sports safety expert has over 50 years of experience in polymers and is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents involving commercialized plastics, including protective headgear, enhanced energy absorption for protective equipment, and household products.
This expert is also the author of over 100 publications and presentations, with current interests in head and brain protection in sports, recreation, personal injury accidents, and litigation. This expert is involved in reconstructing many types of sports injuries across recreational and sports activities, amusement parks, sports facilities, and accidents involving a variety of products and vehicles.
This expert has over 50 patents and substantial experience in patent infringement and patent litigation, as well as extensive experience testing and evaluating many types of helmets.
This expert previously had a long-term royalty agreement with a sporting-goods manufacturer involving a football facemask invention designed to reduce catastrophic spinal injuries among young athletes.
This expert has experience evaluating helmet designs, testing competing helmet products, and assessing issues involving helmet patents and alleged copying.
In addition to presenting seminars on polymers and commercial applications to senior mechanical engineering students at a prestigious university, this expert is well published in plastics, safety engineering and design, sports safety, and household and industrial product safety.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #234546
This polymer engineering expert holds a doctorate, is a Fellow of a prominent plastics engineering society, and is a Professor Emeritus in mechanical engineering at a major public university, with teaching experience in polymer processing, designing with polymers, and polymer composites processing. This expert also founded and co-directed a polymer engineering center at that university.
Research in polymer engineering includes modeling and simulation in polymer processing, engineering design with plastics, sustainability, and biopolymers. This expert has held honorary professor roles in plastics technology at international universities, has authored over 400 papers in the field and multiple books on polymer science, polymer processing, injection molding, and plastics, and serves in a senior technical advisory role for a silicone-parts company.
This expert has extensive expert witness experience in polymer engineering litigation, including patent litigation.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #267463
This optoelectronics expert holds a PhD and is well regarded in the fields of optoelectronics, photonics electronics, and semiconductors.
This expert has considerable experience with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), displays including LCD, LED, and OLED technologies, optical polymers, solar cells, and lighting. This expert is a named inventor on over 230 U.S. patents and is a seasoned expert witness.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #270388
This fabric flammability expert holds a Ph.D. in Polymer and Fiber Science and an M.Sc. in Textiles, Polymers, and Fiber Engineering, and is a Professor Emeritus and former department chair in fire protection engineering at a well-regarded university.
This expert has specialized experience as a textiles and clothing fire and flammability expert, including serving as lead expert in a number of clothing fire cases in California courts. This expert also has experience in a clothing fire case involving ignition by a portable heater.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #285718
This footwear expert holds a PhD and is an internationally recognized specialist in sports biomechanics, specifically involving athletic footwear. This expert's consultancy specializes in research and testing related to the biomechanical and functional aspects of footwear design and performance, including footwear research and testing.
This expert previously held a senior research leadership role at major athletic footwear companies, supervising sneaker and footwear testing and working with athletic shoe designers and product developers. This expert also previously chaired an athletic footwear standards subcommittee for a prominent standards organization and has developed shoe-surface traction testing systems and software for major footwear companies and laboratory testing environments.
Shoe-surface contacts do not obey the basic laws of friction, including Coulomb's laws, and are nonlinearly dependent on load, sliding velocity, and pressure. The contacting surfaces are not smooth. The variable nature and size of surface texture means that the underlying mechanism of traction varies from interatomic forces at small scales to the mechanical responses of bulk, friable materials. Surface contamination with dust and fluids also has significant effects. Sole materials like rubber and other polymers are hyperelastic, and their nonlinear mechanical properties depend on temperature and loading history.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #285942
This fire physics expert has authored work on combustion and received funding from a U.S. space agency to study candle-like combustion of polymers on Earth and aboard an orbiting space station.
This expert has testified on several occasions and has expertise in candle flames and their operating mechanisms.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #286176
This chemistry, materials, and injection molding expert is a prestigious university-educated PhD chemist with over 30 years of experience in the chemical industry, over 10 personal US patents, and over 25 additional patents granted to groups this expert led. This expert led research and development initiatives internationally, serving in scientific, global research leadership, and senior technology executive roles for major chemical companies. This expert has strong expertise in research leadership and management, new business development, business and commercialization strategy, litigation research, and innovation involving polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert spent over 30 years in the plastics industry performing and supervising the development of new and improved plastics, many of which were targeted for injection molding applications. Injection molding was used to prepare many test samples. This expert also oversaw a technical support group that worked with customers to troubleshoot injection mold designs and processes for applications including automotive lighting and trim, medical parts, and consumer goods.
This expert has experience with functional behavior issues involving polymer parts, including factors such as modulus and strength, ductile or brittle failure behavior, and notch sensitivity.
As a technical expert, this expert has worked with attorneys to secure numerous patents and to reach favorable resolutions in high-value litigation. This expert also has experience in scale-up, manufacturing, and marketing, served in a board role for a prominent industry association, and served as a judge for industry innovation awards.
As a senior scientist and leader of multiple R&D groups, this expert led programs for the development and commercialization of numerous new products with cumulative sales exceeding two billion dollars. These products have widespread use in automotive, aerospace, medical, construction, packaging, display, and optical applications.
This expert's experience includes acrylics, PMMA, polycarbonate, polyester, polyurethane, composites, aerosols, adhesives, thermoplastics, polymer degradation, product liability, and product failure. This expert provides consulting and expert witness services in polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert also has extensive experience as an expert witness, including matters involving coatings, inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, and patent infringement and non-infringement issues.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #287915
This materials engineering and polymer science expert holds a Ph.D. and specializes in the design, manufacture, and performance of polymer-based systems used in building and construction, automotive, industrial coating, medical, electronic, and consumer product industries. Areas of expertise include surface analysis, polymer rheology, and chemical, thermal, and mechanical analysis of coatings, adhesives, sealants, fibers, non-wovens, rubbers, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermosets, gels, and novel polymer materials.
This expert has performed numerous project evaluations involving design, performance testing, and failure analysis of polymeric systems used in automotive environments and consumer products, including evaluations of such materials in patent infringement and trade secret disputes. This expert also has direct product development experience using polymer processing techniques such as extrusion and fiber spinning.
Beyond commodity polymers, this expert has research experience defining the structure-property relationships of polymer systems, including block copolymers, polymeric surfactants, polymer blends, polymer brushes, confined films, hydrogels, and hierarchical structures.
This expert has direct experience conducting offset lithography in both academic and industrial settings, including work in a microfabrication facility. Broader expertise includes the analysis, characterization, and performance of surfaces and surface coatings, including extensive familiarity with tools such as AFM used to characterize those properties.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #299991
This injection molding expert holds a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering and has extensive experience in the development, formulation, scale-up, quality testing, and large-scale industrial manufacturing of polymers and plastics. This expert is familiar with EVA and EVA-containing polymers, including their synthesis and processing.
This expert has previously provided testimony regarding injection molding matters and has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Polymers Expert SearchExpert Witness #302099
This materials science and engineering expert holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from a well-regarded public research university and has extensive knowledge and experience with mechanics of materials, mechanical deformation, fatigue, and thermomechanical effects on mechanical properties from a background in mechanical testing and investigation.
This expert applies materials science and engineering knowledge to relate processing, properties, defects, and structure to the mechanical properties and performance of engineering materials. This expert's materials science background covers metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. The material that a part, component, or equipment is made from informs how it deforms, generates and propagates damage, and degrades. Investigation and evaluation of the material reveals its history and relationship with its environment and past use and service.
This expert has experience testing and characterizing plastic materials, including polypropylene, HDPE, polycarbonate, and ABS, for industry clients that manufacture goods from polymers. This expert is also knowledgeable about potential manufacturing defects for these plastics.
Start Polymers Expert Search