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 thegeneral 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.
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Ajay Kumar Mishra (MSc, MPhil, PhD, FRSC) is Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, Professor at Department of Chemistry KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India and Director at Nanotechnology and Waste Water Innovations, Johannesburg, South Africa. He also holds an adjunct and visiting professorship at Bashkir State University, Russia, Robert Gordon University, UK, Hebei University of Science and Technology & Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include the synthesis of multifunctional nanomaterials, biobased materials including polymers, carbon nanomaterials, composite/nanocomposite materials and wastewater research. Prof Mishra has published around 160 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and also represented in 150 or more papers in various conferences. He has edited more than 32 books and contributed over 65 book chapters in various peer reviewed edited books by established publishers
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Labs in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, USA. His research is focused on the applications of Nanotechnology & Advanced Technologies & advanced Materials, Chemistry, Environment, and Various Industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as prolific author and editor of several (around 50 books) scientific monographs and Encyclopedia s in his research areas published with Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & sons, CRC, Springer etc.
