HomeMike Brook is a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Brook is an expert in silicon, silica and silicone chemistry. He wrote the solely authored book Silicon in Organic, Organometallic and Polymer Chemistry (Wiley) in 2000, and has published over 315 papers and has 12 granted patents. His main interests revolve around strategies to improve the sustainability of polymers using silicon chemistry. He is CSO of Neopara Materials (neoparaco.com) and EnRoute Interfaces (erinterfaces.com), both focussed on utilizing waste as a resource in materials chemistry, which fits with his current research on using natural materials to make silicone elastomers (bio)degradable in the environment.
Brook won the Macro Group UK Medal for Outstanding Achievement and the Canadian Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award for Green Chemistry (CSC) in 2023, D’Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship, Ireland Canada University Foundation in 2021, Macromolecular Science; Engineering Award from the CIC in 2017, the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award for Silicon Chemistry (ACS) in 2016, was a Canadian Killam Research Fellow and, with Mark McDermott (McMaster University), won the Synergy Prize for Industrial Collaboration with Connaught Laboratories (now Sanofi).