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

This book is an archival reference for the evolving field of biomaterials andtheir 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 recent heightened awareness around bioenergy and biomass as potential replacements for petroleum feedstocks.The book is divided into three parts: cellulose-based biomaterials, chitin and chitosan biomaterials, and hemicelluloses and other polysaccharides.Each chapter addresses a separate biomaterial, discussing its chemical, physical, and biological attributes, and hones in on each compound'sintrinsic tunabilityfor numerous chemical transformations.In the current quest for a "green" economy and resources, this book will help inspire scientists towardsnovel sources for chemicals, materials, andenergy in the years to come. INDICE: Foreword viiPreface ixContributors xi1 Recent Advances in Cellulose Chemistry 1Thomas Heinze and Katrin Petzold-Welcke2 Cellulosic Aerogels 51Falk Liebner, Emmerich Haimer, Antje Potthast, and Thomas Rosenau3 Nanocelluloses: Emerging Building Blocks for Renewable Materials 105Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia4 Interactions of Chitosan with Metals for Water Purification 127Mohammed Rhazi, Abdelouhad Tolaimate, and Youssef Habibi5 Recent Developments inChitin and Chitosan Bio-Based Materials Used for Food Preservation 143Véronique Coma6 Chitin and Chitosan as Biomaterial Building Blocks 177JoséF. Louvier-HernÃíndez and Ram B. Gupta7 Chitosan Derivatives for Bioadhesive/HemostaticApplications: Chemical and Biological Aspects 199Mai Yamazaki and Samuel M. Hudson8 Chitin Nanofibers as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials 227Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia9 Electrical Conductivity and Polysaccharides 247Axel Rußler and Thomas Rosenau10 Polysaccharide-Based Porous Materials 271Peter S. Shuttleworth, Avtar Matharu, and James H. Clark11 Starch-Based Bionanocomposites: Processing and Properties 287Visakh P. M., Aji P. Mathew, Kristiina Oksman, and Sabu Thomas12 Starch-Based Sustainable Materials 307Luc Avérous13 The Potential of Xylans as Biomaterial Resources 331Anna Ebringerova14 Micro- and Nanoparticles from Hemicelluloses 367Emmerich Haimer, Falk Liebner, Antje Potthast, and Thomas Rosenau15 Nonxylan Hemicelluloses as a Source of Renewable Materials 387David Plackett and Natanya HansenIndex 409

• ISBN: 978-0-470-87419-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 430
• Fecha Publicación: 20/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés