Table of Contents:
  • Feedstocks for the future: using technology development as a guide to product identification / Joseph J. Bozell
  • Sustainable development and renewable feedstocks for chemicall industry / Jürgen 0. Metzger and Ursula Biermann
  • Starting at the front end: processes for new renewables as feedstocks of the future / Detlef Wilke and Yuri Gleba
  • Biomass derivatives: a sustainable source of chemicals / Leo E. Manzer
  • Catalytic transformations of carbohydrates / Pierre Gallezot, Michèle Besson, Laurent Djakovitch, Alain Perrard, Catherine Pinel, and Alexander Sorokin
  • Novel polymeric materials from soybean oils: synthesis, properties, and potential applications / Dejan D. Andjelkovic, Fengkui Li, and Richard C. Larock
  • Cyclic voltammetry as a potential predictive method for supported nanocrystalline gold catalysts for oxidation in aqueous media / Giraham J. Hutchings, Silvio Carrettin, Paul McMorn, Patrick Jenkins, Gary A. Attard, Peter Johnston, Ken Griffin, and Christopher J. Kiely
  • How biobased products contribute to the estabishment of sustainable, phthalate free, plasticizers and coatings / J. van Haveren, E.A. Oostveen, F. Miccichè, and J.G.J. Weijnen
  • Carbon dioxide as a renewable C1 feedstock : synthesis and characterization of polycarbonates from the alternating copolymerization of epoxides and CO2 / Scott D. Allen, Christopher M. Byrne, and Geoffrey W. Coates
  • Electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol / Corey R. Anthony and Lisa McElwee-White
  • Improved catalytic deoxygenation of vicinal diols and application to alditols/ Kevin P. Gable and Brian Ross
  • Iron-TAML® catalysts in the pulp and paper industry / Colin P. Horwitz, Terrence J. Collins, Jonathan Spatz, Hayden J. Smith, L. James Wright, Trevor R. Stuthridge, Kathryn G. Wingate, and Kim McGrouther
  • New Heterogeneous Catalysts Derived from Chitosan for Clean Technology Applications / Duncan J. Macquarrie, Jeff J.E. Hardy, Sandrine Hubert, Alexa J. Deveaux, Marco Bandini, Rafael Luque Alvarez, and Marie Chabrel
  • Genetic engineering of S. cerevisiae for Pentose utilization / Peter Richard, Ritva Verho, John Londesborough, and Merja Penttilä
  • Microbial formation of Polyhydroxyalkanoates from forestry-based substrate / Thomas M. Keenan, Stuart W. Tanenbaum, and James P. Nakas
  • Hemicellulose from bidelignified wood: a feedstock for renewable materials and chemicals / Arthur J. Stipanovic, Thomas E. Amidon, Gary M. Scott, Vincent Barber, and Misty K. Blowers
  • Life-cycle assessment of energy-based Impacts of a biobased process for producing 1,3-Propanediol / Robert P. Anex and Alison L. Ogletree
  • Ecological evaluation of processes based on by-products or waste from agriculture: life cycle assessment of biodiesel from tallow and used vegetable oil / Anneliese Niederl and Michael Narodoslawsky
  • Polyhydroxyalkanoate production in crops / Gregory M. Bohlmann
  • The biofine technology: a "Bio-Refinery" concept based on thermochemical conversion of cellulosic biomass / Stephen W. Fitzpatrick
  • The development of biopolymer-based nanostructured materials: plastics, gels, IPNs, and nanofoams / J J.G. van Soest
  • Polyols: an alternative sugar platform for conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals / J Michael Robinson, Caroline E. Burgess, Melissa A. Bently, Chris D. Brasher, Bruce O. Home, Danny M. Lillard, José M. Macias, Laura D. Marrufo, Hari D. Mandal, Samuel C. Mills, Kevin D. O'Hara, Justin T. Pon, Annette F. Raigoza, Emesto H. Sanchez, José S. Villarreal, and Qian Xiang
  • Optimization of the process conditions for the extraction of heteropolysaccharides from Birch (Betula pendula) / Peter Karlsson, Johannes P. Roubroeks, Wolfgang G. Glasser, and Paul Gatenholm
  • Protein-based plastics and composites as smart green materials / Stéphane Guilbert, Marie-Hélène Morel, Nathalie Gontard, and Bernard Cuq.