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Dr Stuart Cook Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre Brickendonbury Hertford United Kingdom Email: scook@tarrc.co.uk Biographical Sketch: Dr Stuart Cook is Head of the Materials R & D Division of TARRC (formerly MRPRA) in the UK. Dr Cook gained his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of East Anglia in 1985. He joined TARRC as a chemist in 1987 to work on the autoxidation of rubber materials. Dr Cook has worked extensively on the manipulation of crosslink and filler distribution in rubber blends and helped develop new techniques to measure these parameters. Dr Cook has also worked in the area of thermoplastic vulcanizates and to develop a greater understanding of the phase morphology of these materials. More recently, Dr Cook has been active in the development of tyre tread compounds based on silica-filled epoxidized natural rubber and understand how this unique system is able to deliver improved wet traction and low rolling resistance. |