Polymers provide a diverse range of solutions to some of our most challenging problems - especially in healthcare.

 

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In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Jeff Hrivnak, a Strategic Growth Manager at Solvay, to explore the possibilities unlocked by polymers. He can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhrivnak/. In this conversation we unpack of the challenges polymers are uniquely equipped to solve in the biomedical field. 

 

Our topics in today’s episode include:

What polymers are, and how they vary from other classes of materials (2:10)

How structure and types of polymers drive their applications (9:02)

Using polymers to filter blood in hemodialysis (14:44)

How Solvay has used their technologies to help during COVID-19 crisis (20:20)

Analyzing sustainability of plastic medical devices (30:29) 

And much more!

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