Handbook of Biopolymers

TRAMA

This book on biopolymers offers a comprehensive source for biomaterial professionals. It covers all elementary topics related to the properties of biopolymers, the production, and processing of biopolymers, applications of biopolymers, examples of biopolymers, and the future of biopolymers.  Edited by experts in the field, the book highlights international professionals’ longstanding experiences and addresses the requirements of practitioners and newcomers in this field in finding a solution to their problems. The book brings together several natural polymers, their extraction/production, and physio-chemical features. The topics covered in this book are biopolymers from renewable sources, marine prokaryotes, soy protein and humus oils, biopolymer recycling, chemical modifications, and specific properties. The book also focuses on the potential and diverse applications of biogenic and bio-derived polymers. The content includes industrial applications of natural polymeric molecules and applications in key areas such as material, biomedical, sensing, packaging, biomedicine, and biotechnology, and tissue engineering applications are discussed in detail.  The objective of this book is to fill the gap between the researchers working in the laboratory to cutting-edge technological applications in related industries. This book will be a very valuable reference material for graduates and post-graduate students, academic researchers, professionals, research scholars, and scientists, and for anyone who has a flavor for doing biomaterial research. The books are designed to serve as a bridge between undergraduate textbooks in biochemistry and professional literature. The book provides universal perspectives for an emerging field where classical polymer science blends with molecular biology with highlights on recent advances.

SOMMARIO

Biopolymers: State of the art and new challenges.- Biopolymers from renewable sources.- Recent approaches towards Bacterial NanoCellulose (BNS) synthesis.- Bacterial nanocellulose from agro-industrial wastes.- Biopolymers from marine prokaryotes.- Biomolecules from humus oil.- Soy protein biopolymer.- Piezoelectric Properties of Biopolymers.- Optical properties of biopolymers: Theoretical and experimental advances.- Mechanical properties of biopolymers.- Thermal properties of biopolymers.- Gas barrier properties of biopolymers.- Structural, morphological and textural properties of biopolymers.- Tuning the hydrophilic/hydrophobic behavior of biopolymers: Surface modifications

AUTORE

Dr. Ajitha A R is a senior researcher at International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IIUCNN), Mahatma Gandhi University. She completed her Doctoral research in the area of Polymer Science, incorporating Nano materials in thermoplastics. Her research area includes preparation of nanocomposites, their characterization and modification of nanofillers. She received two patents and published eleven research articles in international journals of high impact factor. She edited one book titled “Compatibilization of Polymer Blends” (Elsevier publication). She has also authored more than fourteen book chapters in international books and presented papers in many international conferences and seminars. She is an expert in the field of engineering application of nanomaterials. Dr. Cintil Jose Chirayil is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Newman College, Kerala, India. She received her Ph.D. in Polymer Science from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Doha. She has 12 years of research experience in the field of Nanoscience and nanocellulose with 20 publications in international peer reviewed journals and fifteen book chapters and one edited book Elsevier International publishing company. In addition to the Young Scientist Award, 2011 (Leed’s University London and NIT Calicut), she was the recipient of Foreign scholarships from University of Potsdam-Germany; University of Mara-Malaysia, Institute of Chemistry-Austria, for in depth research in the field of Nano science. She is an approved research guide of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, in the subject area Chemical sciences. Dr. Bejoy Thomas studied chemistry at the University of Bangalore (India) and received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Cochin University of Science and Technology (India). As a DFG (German Chemical Society) postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Stuttgart, he moved to Germany after working for a few years in NMR spectroscopy at the NMR Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science (India) under CSR-SRF. Before returning to India to join Newman College in Thodupuzha- Kerala as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 2011, Dr. Bejoy first moved to Paris, France as a CNRS postdoctoral associate at the Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière de Condensee de Paris (LCMCP), UPMC-P6- Paris. His research focuses on the self-assembly of biosurfactant molecules, such as long chain fatty acids and their esters, small proteins, polysaccharides, etc. for the development of new materials, the creation of organized mesoporous materials, surface science, catalysis, and hierarchical zeolites, as well as in situ NMR spectroscopy of working catalysts.  The extraction, properties, and use of nanocellulosic materials from biomass resources have recently been the subject of the active research, particularly with regard to catalytic applications. Nearly 50 research articles by Dr. Bejoy have been published in high impact journals, including one in Chemical Reviews that has received the highest citations in recent years from authors in India.   Professor Sabu Thomas is currently Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, Indiaand the Founder Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.. Prof. Thomas is an outstanding leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites,  Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Thomas’s ground breaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnological and nano-biomedical sciences, have made transformative differences in the development of new materials for automotive, space, housing and biomedical fields. In collaboration with India’s premier tyre company, Apollo Tyres, Professor Thomas’s group invented new high performance barrier rubber nanocomposite membranes for inner tubes and inner liners for tyres. Professor Thomas  has received a number of national and international awards which include: Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London FRSC, Distinguished Professorship from Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, MRSI medal, Nano Tech Medal, CRSI medal, Distinguished Faculty Award, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Award for Scientific Excellence – 2016,Mahatma Gandhi University- Award for  Outstanding Contribution –Nov. 2016, Lifetime Achievement Award of the Malaysian Polymer Group, Indian Nano Biologists  award 2017and  Suku

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9789811907098
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XXV, 1543 p. 390 illus., 271 illus. in color. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
• Pagine Arabe: 1543
• Pagine Romane: xxv