| Aubert Y. Coran was graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy with BS and MS degrees. In December of 1992 he earned a doctorate degree in Physical Chemistry at the Université de Haute Alsace (at Mulhouse, France) under the direction of Professor J.-B. Donnet. Dr. Coran has made contributions in the fields of polymer science and technology, including the science of the dispersion of fillers in elastomers, vulcanization, chemical modification of polymers, plasticization, polymer processing, blending, etc. He is well known as both an inventor (about 100 US patents) and an author (well over 100 scientific papers). He has been the editor of Rubber Chemistry & Technology, the Journal of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society, and a Chairman of a Gordon Research Conference on Elastomers. Commercial products which bear his mark include Santogard PVI vulcanization retarder, Santoweb® fiber for rubber and PVC reinforcement, Vocol® accelerator for vulcanization, and Santoprene® and Geolast® thermoplastic elastomers. Coran served in several research positions at Monsanto, and, at the time of his retirement from Monsanto, he was a Distinguished Science Fellow (the highest technical position at Monsanto). Then he was appointed Manager of the Polymer Blending and Compounding Center at the Institute of Polymer Engineering of The University of Akron and served in that position until the end of 1995 when he became a Research Professor at the Institute of Polymer Engineering. He retired from that position in 2000 and is now a consultant. |
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