Sustainable Polymers From Biomass

Offering a unique perspective summarizing research on this hot topic around the globe, this book provides comprehensive coverage of how small molecular biomass can be transformed into sustainable polymers. It critically discusses and compares four major classes of biomass -- oxygen-rich, hydrocarbon-rich, hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon -- and equally includes products that are already commercialized.
A must-have for both newcomers to the field as well as established researchers in both academia and industry.

Chuanbing Tang is Associate Professor and College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from Nanjing University and Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at University of California Santa Barbara. His research interests include organic polymer synthesis, sustainable polymers from renewable natural resources, metal-containing polymers, and polymers for biomedical application. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award as well as a University of South Carolina Breakthrough Rising Star.

Chang Y. Ryu is Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Acting Director of New York State Center for Polymer Synthesis. He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. After this he became a postdoc in the Materials Research Laboratory at University of California Santa Barbara. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award (2005), Mettler-Toledo Thermal Analysis Education Grant (2001) and the Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (1998). His research focuses on macromolecular separation and adsorption, block copolymer self-assembly in solution and thin films as well as polymer-carbon nanotube hybrid materials.