Overview
- Describes established and potential applications of polysaccharides
- Provides additional information about the usage in the areas of food, clothing and energy
- Explains how these bio-based products can solve grand challenges
- It aims at scientists in polymer laboratories, classrooms, and policy makers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book includes chapters based on the potential uses of polysaccharides such as fibers in food and non-food applications. The complexity of their synthesis in plants, the highly multidisciplinary character of polysaccharide research, and the wide variety of applications from food to clothing to energy are addressed in this volume. The authors describe in detail how these latter grand challenges are of great importance in research, especially in the midst of enormous overpopulation and economic issues. Therefore, the volume contributes additional information to the chemical, nutritional, medical, and energy roles of these bio-based products, finding applications in diverse fields of their raw and composite forms.
This volume is a useful resource for graduate students and contains themes for instructors and senior research leaders. Written by internationally renowned experts, it is aimed at workers in polymer laboratories, classrooms, and policy makers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Lucia has 179 publications in peer review journals and is also a Distinguished Professor of Green Chemistry, Qilu University of Technology (China).
Professor Ali Ayoub is an internationally recognized expert in the biopolymer scienceand engineering field and has successfully developed groundbreaking inventions in areas relevant to polymeric materials and the biorefinery concept. He received his B.S in Physical-Chemistry from the National Chemical Engineering School in France and Ph.D in Materials Chemistry from the Institute of Molecular Chemistry, France where his research was related to the modification of starch for non food application. He has an extensive international experience. He worked for research agricultural governmental agencies in Japan and France before he joined Cornell University in United States and contribute to the development of novel generation of starch food based products using reactive extrusion. He has published over 40 technical papers on the starch modification and its applications and co-authored/edited two books on the renewables materials and polysaccharides. Currently, he is a senior scientist in the chemical industry and an adjunct professor and member associate graduate facultyat North Carolina State University. He is associated with the United States Department of Interior and organizing/presiding symposiums related to natural polymers within the American Chemical Society. He received many academic awards from Japan, France and USA for his research in the advances in understanding the starch macromolecules and its industrial applications. Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polysaccharide-based Fibers and Composites
Book Subtitle: Chemical and Engineering Fundamentals and Industrial Applications
Editors: Lucian Lucia, Ali Ayoub
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56596-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56595-8Published: 12 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85952-1Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56596-5Published: 02 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 117
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Food Science, Engineering Design