Green Biorenewable Biocomposites From Knowledge to Industrial Applications

Preface

Spider Silk Biocomposites: From Recombinant Protein to Fibers; Tyler Chuang, Albert Lin, and Craig Vierra

Biogenic Hydroxyapatite Based Implant Materials; Katalin Balázsi and Csaba Balázsi

Liquid Crystals and Cellulose Derivatives Composites; Adina Maria Dobos, Mihaela-Dorina Onofrei, and Silvia Ioan

Biocomposites Composed of Bio-Based Epoxy Resins, Bio-Based Polyphenols and Lignocellulosic Fibers; Mitsuhiro Shibata

Biocomposite Structures as Sound Absorber Materials; Nazire Deniz Yilmaz and Nancy B. Powell

Biocomposites for Industrial Noise Control; A. R. Mohanty and S. Fatima

Complex Shape Forming of Flax Fabrics: Analysis of the Solutions to Prevent Defects; Pierre Ouagne and Damien Soulat

Injection Molding of Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites; Inderdeep Singh and Saurabh Chiatanya

Development and Properties of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites; S. M. Sapuan, J. Sahari, and M. L. Sanyang

Biocomposites Based on Natural Fibers and Polymer Matrix: From Theory to Industrial Products; Anita Grozdanov, Igor Jordanov, Maria E. Errico, Gennaro Gentile, and Maurizio Avella

Fire Resistance Cellulosic Fibers for Biocomposites; Minh-Tan Ton-That and Tri-Dung Ngo

Reinforcing Fillers and Coupling Agents’ Effects for Performing Wood Polymer Composites; Diène Ndiaye, Mamadou Gueye, Coumba Thiandoume, Ansou Malang Badji, and Adams Tidjani

Mechanical, Physical, Thermal, and Spectrophotometric Properties of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles, Paulownia Wood, and Pine Wood Reinforced High Density Polyethylene Composites: Effect of Maleation, Chemical Modification, and the Mixing of Fillers; Brent Tisserat, Louis Reifschneider, David Grewell, Gowrishanker Srinivasan, and Rogers Harry O’kurud

The Multifunctional Chemical Tunability of Wood-Based Polymers for Advanced Biomaterials Applications; Teresa Cristina Fonseca Silva, Deusanilde Silva, and Lucian A. Lucia

Sldpe/Wheat Gluten Husk Biocomposites Applied to Benzophenone Absortion: Determination of Properties Using Computational Chemistry; Norma-Aurea Rangel-Vazquez, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet, and Virginia Hernandez-Montoya

Nano-Cellulose Reinforced Chitosan Nanocomposites For Packaging and Biomedical Applications; Pratheep K. Annamalai and Dilip Depan

Bionanocomposites: A Greener Alternative For Future Generation; Murshid Iman and Tarun K. Maji

Index

Biography

Vijay Kumar Thakur, PhD, is staff scientist at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He is an editorial board member of several international journals, including Advanced Chemistry Letters, Lignocelluloses, Drug Inventions Today, International Journal of Energy Engineering, and Journal of Textile Science & Engineering and is also a member of scientific bodies around the world. His former appointments include as a research scientist in Temasek Laboratories at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, visiting research fellow in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the LungHwa University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, and post doctorate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. In his academic career, he has published more than 100 research articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of polymers and materials science. He has published 10 books and 25 book chapters on the advanced state of the art of polymers/materials science with numerous publishers. He has extensive expertise in the synthesis of polymers (natural/synthetic), nano materials, nanocomposites, biocomposites, graft copolymers, high performance capacitors. and electrochromic materials.

Michael R. Kessler, PhD, is an expert in the mechanics, processing, and characterization of polymer matrix composites and nanocomposites. His research thrusts include the development of multifunctional materials (including the development of self-healing structural composites), polymer matrix composites for extreme environments, bio-renewable polymers and composites, and the evaluation of these materials using experimental mechanics and thermal analysis. These broad-based topics span the fields of organic chemistry, applied mechanics, and processing science. He has extensive experience in processing and characterizing thermosets, including those created through ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), such as poly-dicyclopentadiene, and the cyclotrimerization of cyanate ester resins. In addition to his responsibilities as professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Washington State University, he serves as the director of the school. He has developed an active research group with external funding of over $10 million—including funding from the National Science Foundation, ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, and NASA. His honors include the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Elsevier Young Composites Researcher Award from the American Society for Composites. He has published over 100 journal papers, with over 3700 citations, holds 6 patents, edited a book on the characterization of composite materials, presented over 200 talks at national and international meetings, and serves as a frequent reviewer and referee in his field.

"... This volume, edited by Thakur and Kessler (both, Washington State Univ.), includes some of the same biomaterials, such as cellulose and nanocellulose, as in similarly titled books, but it also includes hydroxyapatite and spider silk.  It largely focuses on composites prepared for specific applications, with several chapters describing biocomposites for sound absorption and others for use in the body, but biocomposite processing and properties are extensively discussed throughout much of the book. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners."
--P. G. Heiden, Michigan Technological University, CHOICE July 2015