Monomers, Polymers and Composites from Renewable Resources

✍ Scribed by Mohamed Naceur Belgacem and Alessandro Gandini (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The progressive dwindling of fossil resources, coupled with the drastic increase in oil prices, have sparked a feverish activity in search of alternatives based on renewable resources for the production of energy.
Given the predominance of petroleum- and carbon-based chemistry for the manufacture of organic chemical commodities, a similar preoccupation has recently generated numerous initiatives aimed at replacing these fossil sources with renewable counterparts. In particular, major efforts are being conducted in the field of polymer science and technology to prepare macromolecular materials based on renewable resources. The concept of the bio-refinery, viz. the rational exploitation of the vegetable biomass in terms of the separation of its components and their utilisation as such, or after suitable chemical modifications, is thus gaining momentum and considerable financial backing from both the public and private sectors.
This collection of chapters, each one written by internationally recognised experts in the corresponding field, covers in a comprehensive fashion all the major aspects related to the synthesis, characterization and properties of macromolecular materials prepared using renewable resources as such, or after appropriate modifications. Thus, monomers such as terpenes and furans, oligomers like rosin and tannins, and polymers ranging from cellulose to proteins and including macromolecules synthesized by microbes, are discussed with the purpose of showing the extraordinary variety of materials that can be prepared from their intelligent exploitation.
Particular emphasis has been placed on recent advances and imminent perspectives, given the incessantly growing interest that this area is experiencing in both the scientific and technological realms.

- Discusses bio-refining with explicit application to materials
- Replete with examples of applications of the concept of sustainable development
- Presents an impressive variety of novel macromolecular materials

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Foreword, Pages v-vi
List of Contributors, Pages vii-viii
Chapter 1 - The State of the Art, Pages 1-16, Alessandro Gandini, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
Chapter 2 - Terpenes: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 17-38, Armando J.D. Silvestre, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 3 - Materials from Vegetable Oils: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 39-66, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 4 - Rosin: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 67-88, Armando J.D. Silvestre, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 5 - Sugars as Monomers, Pages 89-114, J.A. Galbis, M.G. García-Martín
Chapter 6 - Furan Derivatives and Furan Chemistry at the Service of Macromolecular Materials, Pages 115-152, Alessandro Gandini, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
Chapter 7 - Surfactants from Renewable Sources: Synthesis and Applications, Pages 153-178, Thierry Benvegnu, Daniel Plusquellec, Loïc Lemiègre
Chapter 8 - Tannins: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 179-199, Antonio Pizzi
Chapter 9 - Lignins: Major Sources, Structure and Properties, Pages 201-224, Göran Gellerstedt, Gunnar Henriksson
Chapter 10 - Industrial Commercial Lignins: Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 225-241, Jairo Lora
Chapter 11 - Lignins as Components of Macromolecular Materials, Pages 243-271, Alessandro Gandini, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
Chapter 12 - Partial or Total Oxypropylation of Natural Polymers and the Use of the Ensuing Materials as Composites or Polyol Macromonomers, Pages 273-288, Alessandro Gandini, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
Chapter 13 - Hemicelluloses: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 289-304, Iuliana Spiridon, Valentin I. Popa
Chapter 14 - Cork and Suberins: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 305-320, Armando J.D. Silvestre, Carlos Pascoal Neto, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 15 - Starch: Major Sources, Properties and Applications as Thermoplastic Materials, Pages 321-342, Antonio J.F. Carvalho
Chapter 16 - Cellulose Chemistry: Novel Products and Synthesis Paths, Pages 343-368, Thomas Heinze, Katrin Petzold
Chapter 17 - Bacterial Cellulose from Glucanacetobacter xylinus: Preparation, Properties and Applications, Pages 369-383, Édison Pecoraro, Danilo Manzani, Younes Messaddeq, Sidney J.L. Ribeiro
Chapter 18 - Surface Modification of Cellulose Fibres, Pages 385-400, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 19 - Cellulose-Based Composites and Nanocomposites, Pages 401-418, Alain Dufresne
Chapter 20 - Chemical Modification of Wood, Pages 419-431, Mohamed Naceur Belgacem, Alessandro Gandini
Chapter 21 - Polylactic Acid: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, Pages 433-450, L. Avérous
Chapter 22 - Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Origin, Properties and Applications, Pages 451-477, Ivan Chodak
Chapter 23 - Proteins as Sources of Materials, Pages 479-493, Lina Zhang, Ming Zeng
Chapter 24 - Polyelectrolytes Derived from Natural Polysaccharides, Pages 495-516, Marguerite Rinaudo
Chapter 25 - Chitin and Chitosan: Major Sources, Properties and Applications, Pages 517-542, C. Peniche, W. Argüelles-Monal, F.M. Goycoolea
Index, Pages 543-552