Preface ........................................................ ix
1 Furandicarboxylic Acid (FDCA), A Versatile Building Block
for a Very Interesting Class of Polyesters ................... 1
E. de Jong, M. A. Dam, L. Sipos, and G.-J. M. Grater
2 Biobased Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Derived from
Epoxidized and Dihydroxylated Oleate with Phosphoric Acid
and Its Chemical Pathways ................................... 15
B. Kollbe Ann, Stefan Kraft, and X. Susan Sun
3 Toughening Modification of Poly(lactic acid) via Melt
Blending .................................................... 27
Hongzhi Liu and Jinwen Zhang
4 Biobased Polymeric Materials Prepared from Cotton
Byproducts .................................................. 47
H.N. Cheng, Michael K. Dowd, and Atanu Biswas
5 Processing, Mechanical Properties, and Structure Analysis
of Melt-Spun Fibers of P(3HB)/UHMW-P(3HB) Identical Blend ... 63
Taizo Kabe, Takeharu Tsuge, Takaaki Hikima, Masaki Takata,
Akio Takemura, and Tadahisa Iwata
6 Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils ... 77
Wenhua Lu, Jon E. Ness, Wenchun Xie, Xiaoyan Zhang, Fei
Liu, Jiali Cai, Jeremy Minshull, and Richard A. Gross
7 Synthesis of Biomass-Based Monomers from Biomass-Based
Furfural for Polyesters and Evaluation of Their Biomass
Carbon Ratios ............................................... 91
Yuya Tachibana, Takashi Masuda, Masahiro Funabashi,
Ken-ichi Kasuya, and Masao Kunioka
8 Polyioleic diacid-co-glycerol): Comparison of Polymer
Structure Resulting from Chemical and Lipase Catalysis ..... 111
Yu-Rong Zhang, Yi-Xin Yang, Jia-Li Cai, Wen-Hua Lv,
Wen-Chun Xie, Yu-Zhong Wang, and Richard A. Gross
9 Polymers from Fatty Acids: Poly(co-hydroxyl tetradecanoic
acid) Synthesis and Physico-Mechanical Studies ............. 131
Chen Liu, Fei Liu, Jiali Cai, Wenchun Xie, Timothy
E. Long, S. Richard Turner, Alan Lyons, and Richard
A. Gross
10 Long-Chain Polyesters via Chemical Catalytic Conversions
of Fatty Acid Esters ....................................... 151
Florian Stempfie, Philipp Roesle, and Stefan Mecking
11 Advances in the Use of BiOH® Polyols in Polyurethanes ...... 165
Timothy W. Abraham
12 Carbohydrate Hydrogenolysis ................................ 183
Patrick B. Smith
13 Biobased Polymers from Plant-Derived Tulipalin A ........... 197
Seema Agarwal, Qiao Jin, and Samarendra Maji
14 Biological Lactate-Polymers Synthesized by One-Pot
Microbial Factory: Enzyme and Metabolic Engineering ........ 213
John Masani Nduko, Ken'ichiro Matsumoto, and Seiichi
Taguchi
15 Synthesis of Amylose-Grafted Polysaccharide Materials by
Phosphorylase-Catalyzed Enzymatic Polymerization ........... 237
Jun-ichi Kadokawa
16 Novel Nanocomposites Reinforced with Polysaccharide
(Starch) Nanocrystals: From Interfacial Ring-Opening
Polymerization to Melt-Processing Implementation ........... 257
J.-M. Raquez, A.-L. Goffin, E. Duquesne, Y. Habibi,
A. Dufresne, and Ph. Dubois
17 Oleic Acid and Undecylenic Acid as Platform Chemicals for
Thermoplastic Polyurethanes ................................ 269
Gerard Lligadas, Juan C. Ronda, Marina Galiá, and Virginia
Cádiz
18 Novel Biomass-Based Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization,
and Application ............................................ 281
Bart A.J. Noordover, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Inge van der
Meulen, Robbert Duchateau, and Cor E. Koning
19 Thermoplastic Starch Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites ..... 323
С.M. Chaleat, M. Nikolic, R.W. Truss, I. Tan,
S.A. McGlashan, and P.J. Halley
20 Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Fibers ..................... 335
S. Sinha-Ray, Y. Zhang, A.L. Yarin, S.C. Davis, and
B. Pourdeyhimi Editors' Biographies ........................ 349
Indexes
Author Index .................................................. 353
Subject Index ................................................. 355
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