From motor oil to glue, products we use daily are better because of reology.

Reology keeps asphalt from melting on a hot day and peanut butter from getting stuck in factory pipes.

We're learning about this go-with-the-flow field of science next on this episode of Technology Today.

We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results of innovative research every day. Now let's understand it better.

You're listening to the Technology Today podcast presented by Southwest Research Institute.

Hello and welcome to Technology Today.

I'm Lisa Benia.

I recently heard a presentation about reology by SWRI senior research engineer Dr.

Carlos Sanchez.

What struck me is how important reology testing is to so many industries, yet many of us

are not familiar with this field.

Simply put, reology examines the behavior

of fluids and materials at different pressures and the findings make products we use every day

better, easier to use, and safer. Dr. Sanchez is here to help us understand the role of

reology in our daily lives.

Thank you for joining us, Carlos.

Thank you for having me.

So to start, how do you explain reology?

We gave a brief definition there, but what is it?

Yeah, so the definition you gave was great.

So reology is the study of the flow of matter, so the flow behavior of materials, everything from, you know,

think about water flowing out of a bottle to even plastics that melt and need to flow

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