Materials for a sustainable future /
Sustainability is becoming more and more important in our everyday lives and this book is a non-exhaustive look at materials and how they relate to sustainability. This concerns not only the elements that could be in short supply in the near future, such as phosphorus, helium, some rare earths and p...
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Cambridge, UK :
RSC Publishing,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Base metals / Gavin M. Mudd and Zhehan Weng
- Rare earths / Gareth P. Hatch
- Gold / Julie L. Stacey
- Platinum group metals / Gavin M. Mudd
- Helium / Trevor M. Letcher
- Phosphorus / Tina-Simone S. Neset
- Uranium / Gavin M. Mudd
- Aquatic biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals / Angela Dibenedetto and Antonella Colucci
- Chemicals from sugarcane / Fernando Galembeck, Gabriela Alves Macedo, and Yara Csordas
- Chemicals from biomass / Janet L. Scott and Gianfranco Unali
- Methane for transportation fuel and chemical production / Arno de Klerk, Vinay Prasad
- Carbon capture : materials and process engineering / Nick H. Florin, Niall Mac Dowell, Paul S. Fennell, and Geoffrey C. Maitland
- Carbon dioxide utilisation in the production of chemicals, fuels, and materials / Michele Aresta and Paolo Stufano
- Carbon dioxide in the manufacture of plastics / Matthew D. Jones
- Carbon dioxide as a sustainable industrial solvent to replace organic solvents / Steven M. Howdle, Stefan Pollak, Natasha A. Birkin, and Marie Warren
- Battery and fuel cell materials / Justin Salminen and Tanja Kallio
- Materials for photovoltaics / Ian Forbes and Laurence M. Peter
- Materials for water splitting / Mark D. Symes and Leroy Cronin
- Materials used in membranes for water purification and recycling / Xiaoying Zhu, Kin-Ho Wee, and Renbi Bai
- Glass and new technologies / Andreas Kafizas and Ivan P. Parkin
- Sustainable materials in building and architecture / Llewellyn Van Wyk, Joe Mapiravana, and Naa Lamkai Ampofo-Anti
- Biomass in composite materials / Marianne Labet, Kazi M. Zakir Hossain, Ifty Ahmed, and Wim Thielemans
- Subject index.