Degradable Polymers and Materials: Principles and Practice
2nd Edition
Published on 14. March 2013
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-8412-2822-1 (ISBN)
Description
Not too long ago, the world economy was mainly based on agricultural products and its trades and barters between various communities and countries. With the discovery of crude oil, petroleum based fuels, chemicals, polymers and all of their downstream products took a foothold and the world economy was changed forever. Although it is still a very important part of the world economy, agriculture has been second tier to the oil economy for over a hundred years now.
However, the sands of time are shifting once again. With peak oil behind us, rising prices of petroleum-based chemicals and plastics, and more importantly the rude awakening and realization that the rising consumption of crude oil is putting the entire Earth's ecosystem and its living beings at grave risk of total annihilation via a man-made global warming phenomenon, the world is once again turning its attention to renewable and closed-loop bio-based (i.e. agriculture based) products to
fulfill its non-food related needs including transportation fuels and the manufacture of chemicals and plastics.
In this revised edition book, renowned experts from the field of bio-based chemicals, plastics and materials present the most compelling case and a comprehensive overview of the paradigm shift that is taking place in the present day movement to replace crude oil with bio-based raw materials. There are several new chapters in this edition that address new topics of: Biodegradation Testing Protocols, Life Cycle Assessment, Starch and other Natural Polymers, Bioplastics from Waste Materials, and
Biodegradable Agricultural Mulches derived from Biopolymers. In addition, all of the original chapters from the first edition that have been retained in this second edition have been revised and updated with current references and published literature.
However, the sands of time are shifting once again. With peak oil behind us, rising prices of petroleum-based chemicals and plastics, and more importantly the rude awakening and realization that the rising consumption of crude oil is putting the entire Earth's ecosystem and its living beings at grave risk of total annihilation via a man-made global warming phenomenon, the world is once again turning its attention to renewable and closed-loop bio-based (i.e. agriculture based) products to
fulfill its non-food related needs including transportation fuels and the manufacture of chemicals and plastics.
In this revised edition book, renowned experts from the field of bio-based chemicals, plastics and materials present the most compelling case and a comprehensive overview of the paradigm shift that is taking place in the present day movement to replace crude oil with bio-based raw materials. There are several new chapters in this edition that address new topics of: Biodegradation Testing Protocols, Life Cycle Assessment, Starch and other Natural Polymers, Bioplastics from Waste Materials, and
Biodegradable Agricultural Mulches derived from Biopolymers. In addition, all of the original chapters from the first edition that have been retained in this second edition have been revised and updated with current references and published literature.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professionals and Academics working with bio-based chemicals.
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
1 color insert
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8412-2822-1 (9780841228221)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Kishan Khemani is affiliated with AJ Industries. Carmen Scholz is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Content
Preface ; An Overview of Degradable Polymers ; Introduction ; 1. Introduction and Overview of Degradable and Renewable Polymers and ; Materials ; Kishan Khemani and Carmen Scholz ; Protocols, Drivers, Standards, and Tools ; 2. Biobased & Biodegradable Plastics: Rationale, Drivers, and Technology ; Exemplars ; Ramani Narayan ; 3. Biodegradation Testing Protocols ; B. De Wilde ; 4. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Degradable Polymers ; Tim Grant ; 5. Polymer Degradation as a Tool To Study Polyelectrolyte Complex ; Formation and Stability ; L. Leclercq, M. Boustta, and M. Vert ; 6. Factors Controlling the Rate of Photodegradation in Polymers ; Bevin C. Daglen and David R. Tyler ; Natural Biobased Polymers ; 7. Starch in Polymers Technology ; C. Bastioli, P. Magistrali, and S. Gesti Garcia ; 8. Bioplastics from Waste Materials and Low-Value Byproducts ; Helan Xu and Yiqi Yang ; 9. Recent Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biosynthesis in Escherichia ; coli ; Ryan C. Tappel and Christopher T. Nomura ; 10. Bacterial Poly(?-hydroxybutyrate): Hydrophilized and Colored ; K. Busse, H. Budde, C. Scholz, and J. Kressler ; 11. Physical Properties, Structure Analysis, and Enzymatic Degradation of ; Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyvalerate] Films and Fibers ; Toshihisa Tanaka and Tadahisa Iwata ; 12. Harnessing Biopolyesters in the Design of Functional and Nanostructured ; Architectures ; Daniel Grande, Estelle Renard, Julien Babinot, Julien Ramier, and Valerie Langlois ; 13. Biodegradable Agricultural Mulches Derived from Biopolymers ; Douglas G. Hayes, Sathiskumar Dharmalingam, Larry C. Wadsworth, ; Karen K. Leonas, Carol Miles, and Debra A. Inglis ; 14. Plant Oil-Based Curing Agents for Epoxies ; Kun Huang, Mei Li, Shouhai Li, Jianling Xia, and Jinwen Zhang ; Synthetic Degradable Polymers ; 15. Strategies in Aliphatic Polyester Synthesis for Biomaterial and Drug ; Delivery Applications ; Angela L. Silvers, Chia-Chih Chang, Bryan Parrish, and Todd Emrick ; 16. Degradable Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-polycaprolactone Worm-like ; Micelles: From Phase Transitions and Molecular Simulation to Persistent ; Circulation and Shrinking Tumors ; Nuria Sancho Oltra, Sharon M. Loverde, Takamasa Harada, Abdullah Mahmud, ; Karthikan Rajagopal, and Dennis E. Discher ; 17. Thermo-Responsive Gels: Biodegradable Hydrogels from Enantiomeric ; Copolymers of Poly(lactide) and Poly(ethylene glycol) ; Tomoko Fujiwara ; 18. PLA-PEO-PLA Hydrogels: Chemical Structure, Self-Assembly and ; Mechanical Properties ; Surita R. Bhatia and Gregory N. Tew ; 19. Functional Degradable Polymeric Materials Prepared by Atom Transfer ; Radical Polymerization (ATRP) ; Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Ke Min, Nazeem M. Jahed, Haifeng Gao, and ; Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index