Bio-Based Polymers and Composites: Properties, Durability, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Amadou Belal Gueye (editor), Sabu Thomas (editor), Nandakumar Kalarikkal (editor), Modou Fall (editor)

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When applying human ingenuity and experience to natural resources and processes, scientists and researchers can maximize the potential of nature for human benefit. In that vein, this book explores the latest breakthroughs in natural biopolymers, green composites, and green nanocomposites, a field that is rapidly expanding. The volume looks at bio-based polymers and composites for environmental sustainability, such as in bioremediation and for wastewater treatment. It discusses natural polymers from waste products and considers the use of bio-based polymers and composites in fertilization in horticulture as well as in industry and construction, such as for recycling of concrete, for gas sensing applications for safety, for fiber-reinforced epoxy composites, etc.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Editors
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Biopolymer-Derived Superabsorbent for Environmental Sustainability: A Review
2. Applications of Green Nanocomposites in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Bioremediation: Current Status and Future Direction
3. Lignin- and Chitosan-Based Biosorbents for Waste Water Treatment
4. Advancement of Natural Polymers from Waste and Their Biotechnological Applications
5. Pectin–Carbon Nanosphere: A Green Nanocomposite for the Sensing of Glucose
6. Structural and Functional Diversities of Lactic Acid Bacterial Polysaccharide
7. Comparison of Thermal Resistance by Insulation Board Made from Rice Husk and Bagasse Waste
8. Effect of Micro- and Nanofillers on Polarization, Depolarization Currents, and Dielectric Properties in Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composites
9. Ni/Co/Cu and TiO2 Incorporate Ragi Husk-Derived Biosilica Nanocomposite as Photocatalyst and Adsorbent for the Degradation of Methyl Blue Dye
10. Effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Polymerization Shrinkage and Mechanical Properties of ORMO-48
11. Structural and Optical Characterization of PVP-Stabilized Ag-Doped CuO Nanoflakes via Hydrothermal Method
12. PVA-Stabilized Zn-Doped CoS/Graphene Nanocomposites as Active Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors and Excellent Nano-Photocatalists
13. Antimicrobial Activity of Poly Vinyl Pyrrolidine-Assisted Pure and Transition Metals (Fe/Zn/Ag)-Doped CuO Nanocomposites
14. Effect of Sulfur Sources on the Properties of PVA-Stabilized Indium Sulfide for Photo Degradation Application
15. PLA Stabilized/Graphene-Based Copper Sulfide-Hole Transport Material for Organic Photovoltaics
16. Structural Properties of Ag-Doped PVP-Stabilized SnO2 Engineered with TiO2 for Gas Sensing Applications
17. Struvite Fertilization in Horticulture as the Closed Phosphorus Cycle
Index