Overview
- Focuses on the extraction of keratin from waste biomass and their potential applications
- Comprehensively discusses all data on keratin
- Highlights the unique features of keratins and updates readers with the prospects to develop new value-added products
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials (SSPCM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The main aim of this book is to highlight the unique features of keratin and to update readers with the possible prospects to develop various value-added products from keratins. The book is highly interesting to researchers working in industry and academia on bioproducts, tissue engineering, biocomposites, biofilm, and biofibers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Swati Sharma has completed her PhD. from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia in 2018. She worked as a visiting researcher in college of life and environmental sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul South Korea. Dr. Sharma has completed her masters (M.Sc.) in 2013 from Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India. She has also worked as program co-coordinator at Himalayan action research center Dehradoon and Senior research fellow at India agricultural research institute in 2013-2014. Dr. Sharma has published her research papers in reputed international journals. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nanofibres and nanoparticles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anti-cancerous activities and sponges.
Dr. Ashok Kumar, is working as an Assistant professor in Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat,Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology, Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla, India in 2013. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow in State Key laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan China for two years, 2014-2016. He also worked as Post Doctoral research associate at Konkuk University Seoul South Korea for 2016-2017. Dr. Ashok has keen interest in enzyme immobilization, biomaterials, biopolymers, nanobiotechnology, biocatalysis, waste management, biomass degradation, biofuel synthesis, gene cloning, characterization and biotransformation. Dr. Ashok has published 44 research papers in various internationally reputed journals and 11 book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Keratin as a Protein Biopolymer
Book Subtitle: Extraction from Waste Biomass and Applications
Editors: Swati Sharma, Ashok Kumar
Series Title: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02901-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02900-5Published: 05 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02901-2Published: 23 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-1878
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Sustainable Development, Biochemical Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry