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Polysaccharide building blocks : a sustainable approach to the development of renewable materials /

"This book is an archival reference for the evolving field of biomaterials and their applications in society, focusing on their composition, properties, characterization, chemistry and applications in bioenergy, chemicals, and novel materials and biomaterials. It has broad appeal due to the rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Habibi, Youssef (Editor), Lucia, Lucian A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012]
Series:Wiley Online Library.
Subjects:
Polysaccharides.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Material Science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Recent Advances in Cellulose Chemistry / Thomas Heinze, Katrin Petzold-Welcke
  • Cellulosic Aerogels / Falk Liebner, Emmerich Haimer, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau
  • Nanocelluloses: Emerging Building Blocks for Renewable Materials / Youssef Habibi, Lucian A Lucia
  • Interactions of Chitosan with Metals for Water Purification / Mohammed Rhazi, Abdelouhad Tolaimate, Youssef Habibi
  • Recent Developments in Chitin and Chitosan Bio-Based Materials Used for Food Preservation / V̌ronique Coma
  • Chitin and Chitosan as Biomaterial Building Blocks / Još F Louvier-Herǹndez, Ram B Gupta
  • Chitosan Derivatives for Bioadhesive/Hemostatic Applications: Chemical and Biological Aspects / Mai Yamazaki, Samuel M Hudson
  • Chitin Nanofibers as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials / Youssef Habibi, Lucian A Lucia
  • Electrical Conductivity and Polysaccharides / Axel Russler, Thomas Rosenau
  • Polysaccharide-Based Porous Materials / Peter S Shuttleworth, Avtar Matharu, James H Clark
  • Starch-Based Bionanocomposites: Processing and Properties / P M Visakh, Aji P Mathew, Kristiina Oksman, Sabu Thomas
  • Starch-Based Sustainable Materials / Luc Av̌rous
  • The Potential of Xylans as Biomaterial Resources / Anna Ebringerova
  • Micro- and Nanoparticles from Hemicelluloses / Emmerich Haimer, Falk Liebner, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau
  • Nonxylan Hemicelluloses as a Source of Renewable Materials / David Plackett, Natanya Hansen
  • Index.