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Advanced Applications of Biobased Materials
Food, Biomedical, and Environmental Applications
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2023
- Editors: Shakeel Ahmed, Annu Tomer
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 6 7 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 6 7 8 - 3
Advanced Applications of Biobased Materials: Food, Biomedical, and Environmental Applications brings together cutting-edge developments in the preparation and application of biobas… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvanced Applications of Biobased Materials: Food, Biomedical, and Environmental Applications brings together cutting-edge developments in the preparation and application of biobased materials. This book begins by providing an overview of biobased materials, their classification, and their physical and chemical modifications. This is followed by a section covering the latest techniques in fabrication, processing, and characterization. Subsequent chapters are grouped by application area, offering insights into advanced and emerging utilizations of biobased materials in food, biomedical, environmental, and other industrial applications. The final part of the book highlights other key considerations, including life cycle assessment, circular economy, sustainability, and future potential.
- Presents processing methods, characterization techniques, and the latest advances in biobased materials
- Focuses on advanced and emerging applications of biobased materials in three key areas – food, biomedicine and the environment
- Considers sustainability issues relating to biobased materials, including environmental impact, lifecycle assessment and the circular economy
Researchers, scientists, and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, biomaterials, materials chemistry, composite science, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, environmental science, Engineers and R&D with an interest in biobased materials for emerging applications in the areas of biomedicine, food, and environment
SECTION 1 - Fundamentals, classification, and modification of biobased materials
1. Biopolymers: An overview
2. Chemical modification of protein-based biopolymers for application in food packaging
SECTION 2 - Fabrication and characterization of biobased materials
3. From waste to resource: Methods for vegetable waste transformation into sustainable plant-based bioplastics
4. Characterization of biobased materials
SECTION 3 - Biobased materials in food applications
5. Biobased materials in food packaging
6. Use of biobased materials from agro-industrial residues in food packaging
7. Biobased materials for increasing the shelf life of food products
8. Biobased materials in nutraceuticals
9. Biobased edible food coatings for food applications
10. Biobased nanomaterials as functional food ingredients
SECTION 4 - Biobased materials in biomedical applications
11. Biobased materials in dentistry
12. Chitin as a biobased material in osteoporosis
13. Chitosan-based biomaterials in biomedical applications
14. Biobased materials in wound dressings
15. Biobased materials in tissue engineering
16. Biobased materials in drug delivery
17. Biobased materials in nano drug delivery
18. Biobased materials in skin rejuvenation
19. Impact of biobased materials on drug delivery for improved cancer therapy
20. Biobased materials in nerve regeneration
21. Impact of biobased materials on human health
22. Cytotoxicity and biocompatibility of biobased materials
SECTION 5 - Biobased materials in environmental applications
23. Biobased materials in removing heavy metals from water
24. Biobased materials in removing organic dyes from water
25. Biobased materials for wastewater treatment
26. Functionalized electrospun biobased polymeric materials in filtration
SECTION 6 - Biobased materials in electronics, coating, catalysis and textile applications
27. Biomaterials toward flexible nanogenerators
28. Biobased advanced coating materials
29. Biobased materials in sustainable development of catalysis
30. Chitosan biobased materials in textile industry
SECTION 7 - Sustainability and future prospects of biobased materials
31. Life cycle assessment of biobased materials
32. Future prospects of biobased materials
- No. of pages: 818
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323916776
- eBook ISBN: 9780323916783
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Shakeel Ahmed
Dr. Shakeel Ahmed is an assistant professor of Chemistry in the Higher Education Department, for the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, in India. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, at the Government Degree College Mendhar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university, situated in New Delhi, India. He gained his post-doctoral experience in biocomposite materials from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has published several research papers in the field of green nanomaterials and biopolymers for various applications including biomedical, packaging, and water treatment.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Government Degree College Mendhar, IndiaAT
Annu Tomer
Dr Annu has expertise in Bionanomaterials, Bionanocomposites and Composite Materials for biomedical applications and is working as International Research Professor in Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea. She has completed her post-graduation from University of Allahabad and had her doctoral research from Jamia Millia Islamia. She has published many scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has authored many book chapters as well as review articles. Recently, she has received Young Researcher Award of the year 2018 from MCS (India), and is the member of American Chemical Society and Asian Polymer Association. Her research interests include green nanomaterials, composite materials, and renewable resource-based materials for biomedical applications and nanomedicine to combat Antimicrobial resistance and Cancer.
Affiliations and expertise
International Research Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South KoreaRead Advanced Applications of Biobased Materials on ScienceDirect