Biopolymers from Renewable Resources

Herausgegeben:Kaplan, David L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biopolymers from Renewable Resources is a compilation of information on the diverse and useful polymers derived from agricultural, animal, and microbial sources. The volume provides insight into the diversity of polymers obtained directly from, or derived from, renewable resources. The beneficial aspects of utilizing polymers from renewable resources, when considering synthesis, pro cessing, disposal, biodegradability, and overall material life-cycle issues, suggests that this will continue to be an important and growing area of interest. The individual chapters provide information on synthesis, processing and properties for a variety of polyamides, polysaccharides, polyesters and polyphenols. The reader will have a single volume that provides a resource from which to gain initial insights into this diverse field and from which key references and contacts can be drawn. Aspects of biology, biotechnology, polymer synthesis, polymer processing and engineering, mechanical properties and biophysics are addressed to varying degrees for the specific biopolymers. The volume can be used as a reference book or as a teaching text. At the more practical level, the range of important materials derived from renewable resources is both extensive and impressive. Gels, additives, fibers, coatings and films are generated from a variety of the biopolymers reviewed in this volume. These polymers are used in commodity materials in our everyday lives, as well as in specialty products.

Produktdetails

• Macromolecular Systems - Materials Approach
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-08341-9
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9783642083419
• ISBN-10: 3642083412
• Artikelnr.: 32079667

Autorenporträt

Renewable resources which can be used for very different kind of purposes such as packaging material (e.g. yoghurt cups) or as fuel are in everybody's mind again. One reason, of course, is the possibility to "grow" these materials and therefore save our oil resources. The second is the biodegradability of these materials and thus the diminishing of our waste.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction to Biopolymers from Renewable Resources.- 2 Starch: Properties and Materials Applications.- 3 Polysaccharides - Cellulose.- 4 Polysaccharides: Chitin and Chitosan: Chemistry and Technology of Their Use As Structural Materials.- 5 Alginates.- 6 Soy Protein As Biopolymer.- 7 Protein-Based Materials.- 8 Bacterial ?-Poly(glutamic Acid).- 9 Polyhydroxyalkanoates.- 10 Surfactants and Fatty Acids: Plant Oils.- 11 Surface Active Polymers from the Genus Acinetobacter.- 12 Lignin.- 13 Natural Rubber from Plants.- 14 Failure Properties of Guayule Rubber.- 15 High Molecular Weight Polylactic Acid Polymers.