We have created a family of multi-functional lightweight designable polymers using versatile bond-molecule structures to provide a wide-range of properties and capabilities:
- Strength Sustainability and Resilience
- Fracture Toughness in Hurricane-Vulnerable Coastal Bridges
- Blast Resistance
- Vibration Control & Damping for Seismic Bridge Protection
- Thermal Insulation and Energy Efficiency; Energy Harvesting
- Automobile Crashworthiness
- Tornado and Debris-Impact Resistance in Residential and Commercial Structures
- Moisture Resistance against Flooding
- Ballistic Impact Protection
- Bio-medical Safety
There is no other company with this unique & versatile surface modification
Our testing and funding with government agencies has established nearly two decades of credibility, leading to immediate market application of the following products:
- Poly-Defender: Military Vests and Sacks with Ballistic Resistant Slips
- Poly-Storm: Storm Shelter Systems
- Poly-Girder: PowerPolymer IDA application to retrofitted or strengthened girder-to-cap connection details in extreme seismic or hurricane environments
- PolyC-Tank: PowerPolymer’s mitigation design of high-penetrable pressurized chemical tankers
The diversity of our applications is a statement in our ability integrate community resilience and sustainability into our city infrastructures.
Our research and discovery have led to a class of sustainable and resilient multi-hazard protective systems for damaged structures and infrastructures with the ability to self-heal and engender energy harvesting with enormous market potential:
- Residential and Commercial Builders
- Tornado Safe Room Envelope Manufacturers, including Storm Doors and Walls, and Panic Rooms
- Bridge Owners and Bridge Engineering Companies
- Federal and State Departments of Transportation
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Defense
- Car Manufacturers
- Original Equipment Manufacturers (Energy / Wind Turbine & Nuclear Industries)
- Oil & Gas Industries
- Sports Equipment Manufacturers
- Biomedical Equipment and Implants
- Marine Environment Industries
Natural Threats
- Seismic
- Bridge rehabilitation and building rehabilitation (residential and commercial)
- Tornado
- Storm shelter design (debris-impacting EF-5 tornado) and wind turbine protection
- Hurricane
- Highway coastal bridge protection, specifically girder-to-cap connection-details
Anthropogenic Threats
- Biomedical
- Prosthetics and internal replacements
- Scaffolds: Facilitate tissue engineering
- Spinal rod infusion: Mitigate Proximal Junctional Kyphosis (PJK) complication due to spinal deformity surgery arising from osteoporosis and sclerosis
- Sports (helmet design): Mitigate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE)
- Military / Terrorism
- Rifle and handgun protection: Ballistic-resistance for military ruck sacks and vests up to .308 and .30-06 calibers, Level IV (National Institute of Justice, NIJ)
- Law enforcement armor
- Helmet design for helicopter infantrymen
- Blast-resistance and cyber-physical security for GSA building protection subject to specific design-basis threats and standoff distance
- Nuclear facilities (dry cask storage) and chemical truck carriers
- Blast or ballistic-resistance, shipping / transportation protection
- Crashworthiness
- Vehicle-to-vehicle collisions / protection
- Barge bridge-pier collisions / protection
Durability threats
- Aging, flooding / moisture (e.g., hurricane flooding), and extreme temperature exposures
Chemical threats
- Protect structures, e.g., steel and concrete bridges, against marine-salt and pollution attack
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
Discover The Future
PowerPolymer owns a patented multi-functional materials system. Our self-healing polymers have been created with advanced energy transferability and energy harvesting capability to produce superior tailor-designed structural composites. Our goals are to protect lives, minimize economic loss, and create revitalization and sustainability in complex multi-hazards environments.