Robert Schuster (rubber scientist)

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Robert Hans Schuster (born 8 September 1942) is the former director of the German Institute for Rubber Technology [1] (DIK) and a popular lecturer on rubber technology. [2]

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Education

Schuster earned a Dipl.-Chem. in 1967 from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania. He earned a Doctor of Science in February 1984 at the Staudinger Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the topic of "thermodynamic investigations on polystyrene-solvent systems" under advisor H.J. Cantow. [3]

Career

From 1984 to 1992, Schuster led the Department of Chemistry and Physics of Elastomers at DIK. In 1992, he was appointed director of the DIK. He was also a lecturer at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in the University of Hanover since 1987, and he held the rank of professor there since April 1996. [3] His most cited work treats the subject of fractal filler networks in rubber. [4]

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Kopfe des Kautschuk Heads of Hevea. Hamburg: KP Verlag. 2006. ISBN   9783000164125 . Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Melvin Mooney Award bestowed" (PDF). Kautschuk Gummi Kunststoffe. No. 6. Huthig Medien. 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Robert H. Schuster biography". rubber.confex.com. ACS Rubber Division. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Klüppel, M.; Schuster, R. H.; Heinrich, G. (1997). "Structure and properties of reinforcing fractal filler networks in elastomers". Rubber Chemistry and Technology. 70 (2): 243–255. doi:10.5254/1.3538429.
  5. ↑ "ACS Rubber Division announces 2012 award winners". k--online.com. Gupta Verlag. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "Rubber Division meets in Texas". Rubber and Plastics News. Crain. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2024.


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