Biopolymers and their Industrial Applications: From Plant, Animal, and Marine Sources, to Functional Products

Biopolymers and their Industrial Applications: From Plant, Animal, and Marine Sources, to Functional Products is a detailed guide to the use of biopolymers for advanced applications across a range of key industries. In terms of processing and cost, bio-based polymers are becoming increasingly viable for an ever-broadening range of novel industrial applications. The book begins with an overview of biopolymers, explaining resources, demands, sustainability, life cycle assessment (LCA) modeling and simulation, and classifications. Further in-depth chapters explore the latest techniques and methodologies for isolation and physicochemical characterization, materials selection, and processing for blends and composites. Chapters 6 to 14 each focus on the preparation and applications of biopolymers in a specific industrial area, including food science and nutraceuticals, medicine and pharmaceuticals, textiles, cosmeceutical, packaging, adhesives and automotive, 3D printing, super capacitor and energy storage devices, and environmental applications. The final chapter compares and analyzes biopolymers alongside synthetic polymers, also offering valuable insight into social, economic, and environmental aspects. This is an essential resource for those seeking to understand, research, or utilize biopolymers in industrial applications. This includes researchers, scientists, and advanced students working in biopolymers, polymer science, polymer chemistry, biomaterials, materials science, nanotechnology, composites, and biotechnology. This is a highly valuable book for scientists, R&D professionals, designers, and engineers across multiple industries and disciplines, who are looking to utilize biopolymers for components and products. Introduces a broad range of industrial application areas, including food, medicine, textiles, cosmetics, packaging, automotive, 3D printing, energy, and more Offers an industry-oriented approach, addressing challenges and explaining the preparation and application of biopolymers for functional products and parts Considers important factors such as resources, classification, sustainability, and life cycle assessment (LCA) modeling and simulationCompares and analyzes biopolymers alongside synthetic polymers, also offering valuable insight into social, economic, and environmental aspects INDICE: 1. Overview of biopolymers: Resources, demands, sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) modeling and simulation2. Biopolymers and their classifications: Biodegradable and non-biodegradable biopolymers3. Isolation and physicochemical characterization of biopolymers4. Methodologies for selecting biopolymers and their characteristic features for various industrial applications 5. Biopolymer blends and composites: Processing technologies and their properties for industrial applications6. Biopolymer in food and food products and nutraceutical industries7. Biopolymer in medicinal and pharmaceutical industries8. Biopolymers in textile industries9. Biopolymer: Applications in cosmeceutical industries10. Biopolymers in packaging in different industries11. Biopolymers in adhesive and automotive industries12. Biopolymers: Opportunities and challenges for 3D-printing13. Biopolymer composites in super capacitor and energy storage devices14. Biopolymer in environmental applications - Industrial waste water treatment15. Advantages of biopolymers over synthetic polymers: Social, economic and environmental aspects

• ISBN: 978-0-12-819240-5
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés