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Zusatztext This book covers an important class of materials, which currently attract much interest in academic and industrial research labs around the world and hold great promises for technological exploitation. Informationen zum Autor After bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical and polymer engineering, Vikas Mittal joined the Polymer Chemistry group of Professor U. W. Suter at the Department of Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich. He there worked for his doctoral degree with a focus on surface chemistry and polymer nanocomposites. He also jointly worked with Professor M. Morbidelli at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences on the synthesis of functional polymer latex particles with thermally reversible behaviors. After completion of his doctoral research, he joined the Active and Intelligent Coatings section of Sun Chemical Group Europe in London. He later joined as Polymer Engineer at BASF Polymer Research in Ludwigshafen, Germany where he has been working to date as laboratory manager responsible for the physical analysis of organic and inorganic colloids. Klappentext Polymers are used in practically every facet of daily life. Most polymers come from fossil fuels and are not biodegradable, causing long-term environmental hazards. Biodegradable polymers provide an alternative, environmentally friendly class of materials. Composites of such polymers have high potential within a wide spectrum of applications. Zusammenfassung Polymers are used in practically every facet of daily life. Most polymers come from fossil fuels and are not biodegradable, causing long-term environmental hazards. Biodegradable polymers provide an alternative, environmentally friendly class of materials. Composites of such polymers have high potential within a wide spectrum of applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Vikas Mittal: Bio-Nanocomposites: Future High Value Materials 2: In-Joo Chin, Shogo Uematsu: Biodegradation of Polymeric Systems 3: Katherine M. Dean, Euthathios Petinakis, Long Yu: Biodegradable Thermoplastic Starch/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Nanocomposites with Layered Silicates 4: Peter R. Chang, Jin Huang, Ning Lin: Bio-Nanocomposites with Non-Cellulosic Biofillers 5: Y. F. Shih, R.J. Jeng: Biodegradable Poly(Butylene Succinate)/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites 6: Manju Misra, Ozgur Seydibeyoglu, Dipa Ray, Kunal Das, Amar Mohanty: Biodegradable Nanocomposites from Cellulosic Plastics and Cellulosic Fiber 7: Thibaud Coradin: Silica/Alginate Bio-Nanocomposites 8: Lin Zhu, Richard P. Wool: Bio-based Elastomers from Soyoil and Nanoclay 9: Francisco M. Fernandes, Margarita Darder, Ana I. Ruiz, Pilar Aranda, Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky: Gelatine Based Bionanocomposites 10: Fengwei Xie, Peter J. Halley, Luc Avérous: Bio-Nanocomposites Based on Starch 11: Jin Huang, Ning Lin, Yun Chen, Peter R. Chang, Jiahui Yu: Soy Protein Based Polymer Nanocomposites 12: Narendra K. Singh, Pralay Maiti: Biodegradable Nanocomposites Based on Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) 13: Mitsuhiro Shibata: Bio-Nanocomposites using Bio-Based Epoxy Resins 14: Caisa Johansson: Bio-Nanocomposites for Food Packaging Applications 15: Jean-François Feller, Bijandra Kumar, Mickaël Castro: Conductive Biopolymer Nanocomposites for Sensors 16: Sunil P. Lonkar, A. Pratheep Kumar and R. P Singh: Commercial Aspects Associated with Bionanocomposites ...
