Ebook: Renewable and Sustainable Polymers

Content: 1. The Emergence of Renewable and Sustainable Polymers 2. Copolyester Synthesis Using Glycerol from Biodiesel Production Massoud J. Miri, Keelyn E. Nori, Rebecca M. Andrew, and Changfeng Ge 3. Bioplastics, Biocomposites, and Biocoatings from Natural Oils Rafael L. Quirino and Richard C. Larock 4. Biofabrication: Enlisting the Unique Capabilities of Biological Polymers for Hierarchical Construction Benjamin D. Liba, India V. Aranha, Eunkyoung Kim, and Gregory F. Payne 5. Polyurethanes from Hybrid Vegetable Oil/Petrochemical Polyester Polyols Mihail Ionescu, Ye Ji, William M. Shirley, and Zoran S. Petrovi? 6. Revitalizing Chemurgy: Chemicals from Agricultural Resources Patrick B. Smith 7. Cellulosic-Derived Levulinic Ketal Esters: A New Building Block Cora Leibig, Brian Mullen, Tara Mullen, Lee Rieth, and Vivek Badarinarayana 8. Biopolymers, Processing, and Biodegradation Bo Shi, Vasily Topolkaraev, and James Wang 9. Flame Retardants Based on Tartaric Acid: A Renewable By-Product of the Wine Industry B. A. Howell, K. E. Carter, and H. Dangalle 10. Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide Triggered by Supramolecular Organocatalytic Systems Joji Kadota, Sylvain Koeller, Dra%zen Pavlovi?, Jean-Pierre Desvergne, Brigitte Bibal, Frederic Peruch, and Alain Deffieux 11. Zinc Complexes with Mono- and Polydentate Behaving Guanidine Ligands and Their Application in Lactide Polymerization Janna Borner, Ines dos Santos Vieira, Ulrich Florke, Artjom Doring, Dirk Kuckling, and Sonja Herres-Pawlis Author Index Subject Index