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"
