Preface ........................................................ ix
1 Lightweight Materials from Biofibers and Biopolymers ......... 1
Danning Zhang
2 Proteins and Protein-Based Fibers ........................... 21
Yan Vivian Li
3 Synthetic Fibers from Renewable Resources ................... 37
Li Shen
4 Lightweight Materials Prepared from Vegetable Oils and
Their Derivatives ........................................... 53
Jian Hong
5 Environmentally Benign Pretreatments for Producing
Microfibrillated Cellulose Fibers from Hemp ................. 69
Renuka Dhandapani and Suraj Sharma
6 Biothermoplastics from Coproducts of Biofuel Production ..... 89
Narendra Reddy
7 3D Electrospun Fibrous Structures from Biopolymers ......... 103
Helan Xu and Yiqi Yang
8 Phase Separated Fibrous Structures: Mechanism Study and
Applications ............................................... 127
Qiuran Jiang and S. M. Kamrul Hasan
9 Applications of Lightweight Composites in Automotive
Industries ................................................. 143
Da Zhao and Zhou Zhou
10 Novel Cardiac Patch Development Using Natural Biopolymers .. 159
P. Dubey, A. R. Boccaccini, and I. Roy
11 Advanced Protein Composite Materials ....................... 177
Fang Wang, Catherine Yang, and Xiao Hu
12 Lightweight Composites Reinforced by Agricultural
Byproducts ................................................. 209
Xin Yu and Helan Xu
13 Biopolymer-Based Lightweight Materials for Packaging
Applications ............................................... 239
Bin Hu
14 Hollow Micro-/Nano-Particles from Biopolymers: Fabrication
and Applications ........................................... 257
Jian Qian
Editors' Biographies .......................................... 289
Indexes
Author Index .................................................. 293
Subject Index ................................................. 295
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