Table of Contents

Preface ; 1. Furandicarboxylic Acid (FDCA), A Versatile Building Block for a Very ; Interesting Class of Polyesters ; E. de Jong, M. A. Dam, L. Sipos, and G.-J. M. Gruter ; 2. Biobased Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Derived from Epoxidized and ; Dihydroxylated Oleate with Phosphoric Acid and Its Chemical Pathways ; B. Kollbe Ahn, Stefan Kraft, and X. Susan Sun ; 3. Toughening Modification of Poly(lactic acid) via Melt Blending ; Hongzhi Liu and Jinwen Zhang ; 4. Biobased Polymeric Materials Prepared from Cotton Byproducts ; 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 ; Taizo Kabe, Takeharu Tsuge, Takaaki Hikima, Masaki Takata, Akio Takemura, and ; Tadahisa Iwata ; 6. Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils ; 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 ; Yuya Tachibana, Takashi Masuda, Masahiro Funabashi, Ken-ichi Kasuya, and ; Masao Kunioka ; 8. Poly(oleic diacid-co-glycerol): Comparison of Polymer Structure Resulting ; from Chemical and Lipase Catalysis ; 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(?-hydroxyl tetradecanoic acid) Synthesis ; and Physico-Mechanical Studies ; 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 ; Florian Stempfle, Philipp Roesle, and Stefan Mecking ; 11. Advances in the Use of BiOH(R) Polyols in Polyurethanes ; Timothy W. Abraham ; 12. Carbohydrate Hydrogenolysis ; Patrick B. Smith ; 13. Biobased Polymers from Plant-Derived Tulipalin A ; Seema Agarwal, Qiao Jin, and Samarendra Maji ; 14. Biological Lactate-Polymers Synthesized by One-Pot Microbial Factory: ; Enzyme and Metabolic Engineering ; John Masani Nduko, Ken'ichiro Matsumoto, and Seiichi Taguchi ; 15. Synthesis of Amylose-Grafted Polysaccharide Materials by ; Phosphorylase-Catalyzed Enzymatic Polymerization ; Jun-ichi Kadokawa ; 16. Novel Nanocomposites Reinforced with Polysaccharide (Starch) ; Nanocrystals: From Interfacial Ring-Opening Polymerization to ; Melt-Processing Implementation ; 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 ; Gerard Lligadas, Juan C. Ronda, Marina Galia, and Virginia Cadiz ; 18. Novel Biomass-Based Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and ; Application ; Bart A. J. Noordover, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Inge van der Meulen, Robbert Duchateau, ; and Cor E. Koning ; 19. Thermoplastic Starch Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites ; C. M. Chaleat, M. Nikolic, R. W. Truss, I. Tan, S. A. McGlashan, and P. J. Halley ; 20. Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Fibers ; S. Sinha-Ray, Y. Zhang, A. L. Yarin, S. C. Davis, and B. Pourdeyhimi ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index

About the Author

Richard A. Gross is affiliated with the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences at Polytechnic University. Patrick Smith is affiliated with the Michigan Molecular Institute.