Overview
- Contains educative and detailed history of cyclodextrin chemistry
- Reviews advanced applications of cyclodextrins for drug, food, agriculture and environment
- Presents applications of nanoparticles stabilized by cyclodextrins
Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 52)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents the historical development of Cyclodextrins by scientists who have made outstanding contribution to the field. Cyclodextrins are safe, cage-like molecules that have found major applications in many industrial sectors such as medicine, food, agriculture, environment and chemistry.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Grégorio Crini is environmental polymerist at Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. His research activities focus on the environmental aspects of cyclodextrin chemistry.
Dr. Sophie Fourmentin is Professor at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Dunkerque, France. She is President of the French Cyclodextrin Society. Her research works are at the interface between host-guest chemistry and environmental chemistry.
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse, is biogeochemist, Chief Editor and Professor of Scientific Writing at Aix Marseille University, France. He has invented carbon-13 dating and published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of Cyclodextrins
Editors: Grégorio Crini, Sophie Fourmentin, Eric Lichtfouse
Series Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49308-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49307-3Published: 30 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49310-3Published: 01 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49308-0Published: 29 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-7114
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7122
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 401
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 84 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Chemistry, Food Science