Michael A. Brook was the recent recipient of the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry by the American Chemical Society. Brook is also a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. On this program, host Keith Pannell travels to San Diego to talk with Brook about silicon chemistry. We're more familiar with silicon chemistry than you might think. Those products that moisturize our hands, keep our hair soft and our sheets silky are made that way because of silicon.
http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/silicone/
Aired April 17, 2016