About VILASTIC SCIENTIFIC, INC.

Dr. George B. Thurston, designer and developer of the VE System and Vilastic-3 viscoelasticity analyzers, founded Vilastic Scientific, Inc. and currently serves as its President.
  "Our primary interest is producing an instrument capable of solving the problems of our customers, with an emphasis on quality and reliability," Dr. Thurston says. "That is why we pride ourselves on supplying the fundamental scientific and technical know-how as well. It's also why we are constantly broadening the capability of our instruments with new developments such as our microcapillary bundle, electrorheology and porous media attachments."
Dr. Thurston holds the Ph. D. in physics and has been Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Rheology Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin since 1969. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Acoustical Society of America, and in 1975 received the Alexander Von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in recognition of his outstanding research.

As a Visiting Professor at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany, he conducted research on the rheology of blood and synovial fluids, and at the Université Louis Pasteur/Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg, France, on flow birefringence of macromolecules.

His work on biological fluids, flow through porous media (enhanced oil recovery), electrorheological fluids and polymers has been published widely in the scholarly literature, and it is this experience with a broad range of materials and rheological problems that gave birth to two of the most sophisticated rheological instruments on the market today. An early version of the Vilastic-3, for instance, was used in Dr. Thurston's pioneering work that revealed the existence of the viscoelasticity of blood. Indeed, it is his exacting standard of performance and unique approach to problem solving that underlies the philosophy of VSI as a business.

Vilastic instruments currently are being used by Fortune 500 companies to measure the flow properties of everything from inks, orange juice and shampoo to colloids and polymer gels, while universities and other research institutions are exploring the properties of both human and whale blood, synovial fluid and mucus.

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