Polysaccharide Building Blocks

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Recent Advances in Cellulose Chemistry 1
Thomas Heinze and Katrin Petzold-Welcke
2 Cellulosic Aerogels 51
Falk Liebner, Emmerich Haimer, Antje Potthast, and ThomasRosenau
3 Nanocelluloses: Emerging Building Blocks for RenewableMaterials 105
Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia
4 Interactions of Chitosan with Metals for Water Purification127
Mohammed Rhazi, Abdelouhad Tolaimate, and Youssef Habibi
5 Recent Developments in Chitin and Chitosan Bio-Based MaterialsUsed for Food Preservation 143
Véronique Coma
6 Chitin and Chitosan as Biomaterial Building Blocks 177
JoséF. Louvier-Hernández and Ram B. Gupta
7 Chitosan Derivatives for Bioadhesive/Hemostatic Applications:Chemical and Biological Aspects 199
Mai Yamazaki and Samuel M. Hudson
8 Chitin Nanofibers as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials227
Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia
9 Electrical Conductivity and Polysaccharides 247
Axel Rußler and Thomas Rosenau
10 Polysaccharide-Based Porous Materials 271
Peter S. Shuttleworth, Avtar Matharu, and James H. Clark
11 Starch-Based Bionanocomposites: Processing and Properties287
Visakh P. M., Aji P. Mathew, Kristiina Oksman, and SabuThomas
12 Starch-Based Sustainable Materials 307
Luc Avérous
13 The Potential of Xylans as Biomaterial Resources 331
Anna Ebringerova
14 Micro- and Nanoparticles from Hemicelluloses 367
Emmerich Haimer, Falk Liebner, Antje Potthast, and ThomasRosenau
15 Nonxylan Hemicelluloses as a Source of Renewable Materials387
David Plackett and Natanya Hansen
Index 409