Main description:

This book discusses the extraction, purification, modification, and processing of biobased materials and their various industrial applications, across biomedical, pharmaceutical, construction, and other industries. It includes contributions from experts on hybrid biopolymers and bio-composites, bioactive and biodegradable materials, bio-inert polymers, natural polymers and composites, and metallic natural materials. Therefore, this encyclopedia is a useful reference for scientists, academicians, research scholars, and technologists.

Major challenges of biobased materials are their efficient development, cost-effective, and green & environment friendly production/applications. This encyclopedia answers these challenges to professionals and scientists for proper utilization of biobased materials. It presents the recent practices of biobased materials technology in different scientific and engineering domains. It helps the bounded industrial outcomes to reach the general readership of different domains. This encyclopedia bridges the technological gaps between the industrial and academic professionals and the novice young students/scholars. The interdisciplinarity of this encyclopedia makes it unique for a wide readership.

The topic of biobased materials is currently popular in the scientific community, working in such following areas as Recycled materials, Renewable materials, Materials for efficiency, Materials for waste treatment, Materials for reduction of environmental load, Materials for easy disposal or recycle, Hazardous free materials, Materials for reducing human health impact, Materials for energy efficiency, Materials for green energy, etc. This is a relatively hot topic in materials science and has strong demands for energy, material and money savings, as well as heavy contamination problems, despite that the area of biobased materials belongs to most important fields of modern science & technology, no important encyclopedias have been published in the area of "biobased materials"

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction- Biobased materials (Concepts, Fundamentals etc.)

Biobased materials: An Overview

Fabrication and processing of biobased materials

Characterization of biobased materials

Cellulose fibers

Casein

Polylactic acid

Bioplastics

Engineered wood

Zein cornstarch

Grease

Biomass

Part 2: Industrial applications of Biobased materials (Each industry may have 8-10 chapters)

Biobased materials in Food Packaging

Biobased materials in increasing shelf life of food

Biobased materials in dentistry

Biobased materials in wound dressings

Biobased materials in bone tissue repair

Biobased materials in tissue engineering

Biobased materials in agriculture

Biobased materials in construction applications

Biobased materials in textile applications

Biobased materials in wearable e-textiles

Biobased materials in electronic shielding

Biobased materials in environmental protection

Biobased materials in removing heavy metals from water

Biobased materials in organic dyes from water

Biobased materials in wastewater treatment

Biobased materials in sustainable development of catalysis

Biobased materials in bioelectronics

Biobased materials in sensor technology

Part 3: Case Studies related Biobased materials

20 Chapters on case studies related with real-time application challenges biobased materials to be confirmed in this section

Part 4: Biobased materials: A sustainable future

Cyto-toxicity and biocompatibility of Biobased materials

Life cycle assessment and circular economy of Biobased materials

Biobased materials in sustainable development and its future prospective

The future of Biobased materials

Conclusions