Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Carmen Scholz and Kishan Khemani
  • Emulsion-Alignate Microspheres as a New Vehicle for Protein Delivery / Guillermo R. Castro, Emilia Bora, Bruce Panilaitis and David L. Kaplan
  • Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Short Chain Length-Medium Chain Length Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biosynthesis / Christopher T. Nomura and Yoshiharu Doi
  • Physical Properties, Structure Analysis, and Enzymatic Degradation of Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyvalerate] Films and Fibers / Tadahisa Iwata, Toshihisa Tanaka, Norihito Adachi, Masashi Hasegawa, Shinya Teramachi, and Yoshiharu Doi
  • Bacterial Poly(ß-hydroxybutyrate): Hydrophilized and Colored / K. Busse, H. Budde, C. Scholz, and J. Kressler
  • Modifications of Soybean Oil Using Novel Ozone-Based Chemistry / Daniel Graiver, Phuong Tran, Laura Patrick, Ken Farminer, and Ramani Narayan
  • Poly(lactic acids): A Brief Review / J.R. Dorgan, B. Braun, J.R. Wegner, D.M. Knauss
  • Biocatalytic Synthesis of Ricinoleic Acid Star Polymers : "Green" Manufacturing of Potentially Valuable Lubricant Additives and Drug Delivery Materials / Douglas G. Hayes
  • Multifunctional Polyester-Based Materials with Controlled Degradability / Daniel Grande, Estelle Renard, Valeʹrie Langlois, Geʹraldine Rohman, Laurianne Timbart, and Philippe Gueʹrin
  • Poly(lactide)-Poly(ethylene oxide)-Poly(lactide) Triblock Copolymers: Synthesis and Thermal Properties / Naomi Sanabria-DeLong, Khaled A. Aamer, Sarvesh K. Agrawal, Surita R. Bhatia, Gregory N. Tew
  • Degradable Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-Polycaprolactone Worm Micelles / Yan Geng and Dennis E. Discher
  • Functional Degradable Polymeric Materials Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization / Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Ke Min, Nazeem M. Jahed, Haifeng Gao and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
  • Assembly of bioactive, heparin-derivatized polymer hydrogels for protein delivery / Nori Yamaguchi and Kristi L. Kiick
  • Thermo-sensitive Gels: Biodegradable Hydrogels from Enantiomeric Copolymers of Poly(lactide) and Poly(ethylene glycol) / Tomoko Fujiwara and Yoshiharu Kimura
  • Aromatic-aliphatic Block Copolyesters Based on AA/BB Polymers and Poly(lactic acid) / Tim R. Cooper, Nathaniel Nix, and Robson F. Storey
  • Strategies in Aliphatic Polyester Synthesis for Biomaterial and Drug Delivery Applications / Bryan Parrish and Todd Emrick
  • Degradable Polymers as Tools for Polyelectrolyte Complex Analysis / L. Leclercq, M. Boustta, and M. Vert
  • Biobased and Biodegradable Polymer Materials: Rationale, Drivers, and Technology Exemplars / Ramani Narayan
  • Chromatographic Analysis and Total Luminescence Intensity as Tools for Early Degradation Detection and Degradation State Estimation / Minna Hakkarainen, Lina Burman and Ann-Christine Albertsson
  • Characterization of Biodegradable Polymer Blends by Inverse Gas Chromatography: Amylopectin and its Blends / Zeki Y. Al-Saigh
  • Dependence of in vitro Degradation of an Experimental Poly(glycolide-co-L-lactide) Multifilament on Pre-loading and Temperature / Meng Deng, Jack J. Zhou, Gavin G. Chen and Daniel Burkley
  • Organization and Expression of the Genes Involved in the Metabolism of Poly(ethylene glycol) and Poly(vinyl alcohols) / Fusako Kawai, Akio Tani, and Kazuhide Kimbara
  • Factors Controlling the Rate of Photodegradation in Polymers / Bevin C. Daglen and David R. Tyler
  • Biodegradable Polymers: Are Sources and Structures Important? / Graham Swift and Radu Baciu.