Polymer Modeling at The Dow Chemical Company

Abstract

Abstract Polymer modeling plays a vital role in industrial product and process development. Polymer modeling is an integral component of the research and development paradigm at The Dow Chemical Company. The integrated multidisciplinary and multiscale modeling paradigm implemented at Dow is reviewed first in this article. Overviews are then provided of polymer modeling performed in the context of seven different Dow projects, namely: mechanical properties of thermoplastic polymers; polymer/clay nanocomposites; polyol templating; flow induced crystallization and polymer process modeling; polymer design via high‐throughput modeling; linear, branched, and/or network chain architectures; and water vapor transport in a polymer matrix composite.