TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Belgacem, Mohamed Naceur.
AU  - Gandini, Alessandro.
TI  - Monomers, polymers and composites from renewable resources
SN  - 9780080453163
U1  - 660.6 21
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Pharmaceutics
KW  - Biotechnology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The state of the art / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- Terpenes: major sources, properties and applications / Armando J.D. Silvestre and Alessandro Gandini -- Materials from vegetable oils: major sources, properties and applications / Mohamed Naceur Belgacem and Alessandro Gandini -- Rosin: major sources, properties and applications / Armando J.D. Silvestre and Alessandro Gandini -- Sugars as monomers / J.A. Galbis and M.G. García Martín -- Furan derivatives and furan chemistry at the service of macromolecular materials / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- Surfactants from renewable sources: synthesis and applications / Thierry Benvegnu, Daniel Plusqellec and Loïc Lemiégre -- Tannins: major sources, properties and application / Antonio Pizzi -- Lignins: major sources, structure and properties / Göran Gellerstedt and Gunnar Henriksson -- Industrial commercial lignins: sources, properties and applications / Jairo Lora -- Lignins as components of macromolecular materials / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- Partial or total oxypropylation of natural polymers and the use of the ensuing materials as composites or polyol macromonomers / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- Hemicelluloses: major sources, properties and applications / Iuliana Spiridon and Valentin I. Popa -- Cork and suberins: major sources, properties and applications / Armando J.D. Silvestre, Carlos Pascoal Neto and Alessandro Gandini -- Starch: major sources, properties and applications as thermoplastic materials / Antonio J.F. Carvlho -- Bacterial cellulose from Glucanacetobacter xylinus: preparation, properties and applications / Édison Pecoraro ... [et al.] -- Surface modification of cellulose fibres / Mohamed Naceur Belgacem and Alessandro Gandini -- Cellulose-based composites and nanocomposites / Alain Dufresne -- Chemical modification of wood / Mohamed Naceur Belgacem and Alessandro Gandini -- Polylactic acid: synthesis, properties and applications / L. Avérous -- Polyhydroxyalkanoates: origin, properties and applications / Ivan Chodak -- Proteins as sources of materials / Lina Zhang and Ming Zeng -- Polyelectrolytes derived from natural polysaccharides / Marguerite Rinaudo -- Chitin and chitosan: major sources, properties and applications / C. Peniche, W. Argüelles-Monal and F.M. Goycoolea
ER  -