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Chris E. Scott, Ph.D.

President

Material Answers LLC
Tel. 617-378-1976
[email protected]

Professional Profile

Dr. Chris E. Scott is President of Material Answers LLC. He specializes in material structure,
properties, and processing. His work emphasizes thermoplastics, thermosets, blends, NON-MEDICAL RESUMES
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, foams, 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 12
U.S. patents, author of more than 35 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.

Prior to founding Material Answers LLC, Dr. Scott has had both industrial and academic
experience:

Material Answers LLC, 2004 – present.
President and Founder
Bezin LLC, 2012 – present.
President and Co-Founder
Fusion Optix Inc., 2004 – 2006.
Manager, Material Science
Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, 2001 – 2004.
Managing Engineer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 – 2001.
Associate Professor, Department of Material Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994 – 2000.
Assistant Professor, Department of Material Science and Engineering
Eastman Chemical Company, 1990 – 1994.
Senior Engineer

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