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Author: Carmen Scholz (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville) ,
Richard A. Gross (Professor and Herman F. Mark Chair, Professor and Herman F. Mark Chair, Polytechnic University)
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Imprint: American Chemical Society
Volume: 764
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.619kg
ISBN: 9780841236462
ISBN 10: 0841236461
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 28 September 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
It is very pleasing to read a book that delivers a lot of exciting new results and comprehensive reviews and stimulates ideas in many promising areas of understanding and application of biopolymers, particularly of biopolyesters and biocatalysts. It is carefully edited and is amply furnished with impressive figures and tables. The book is an absolute necessity for scientists interested in current progress in renewable resources. It belongs on the shelf of any group active in polymer research in either academia or industry. -- Thomas Heinze, Polymer News, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany<br> Examines the synthesis of polyesters from renewable resources that circumvents the accumulation of toxic reagents and offers an option of biodegradability upon disposal. The 21 papers focus on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and the use of enzymes as catalysts in organic reactions. Topics include rape seed oil methyl ester as a carbon source for growth of PHA, polymerization of lactides and lactones using some lanthanide initiators, the glass transition temperature of PLA polymers, and in vitro adhesion and proliferation on novel bioresorbable matrices for bone regeneration. --SciTech Book News<br>
It is very pleasing to read a book that delivers a lot of exciting new results and comprehensive reviews and stimulates ideas in many promising areas of understanding and application of biopolymers, particularly of biopolyesters and biocatalysts. It is carefully edited and is amply furnished with impressive figures and tables. The book is an absolute necessity for scientists interested in current progress in renewable resources. It belongs on the shelf of any group active in polymer research in either academia or industry. -- Thomas Heinze, Polymer News, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Examines the synthesis of polyesters from renewable resources that circumvents the accumulation of toxic reagents and offers an option of biodegradability upon disposal. The 21 papers focus on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and the use of enzymes as catalysts in organic reactions. Topics include rape seed oil methyl ester as a carbon source for growth of PHA, polymerization of lactides and lactones using some lanthanide initiators, the glass transition temperature of PLA polymers, and in vitro adhesion and proliferation on novel bioresorbable matrices for bone regeneration.--SciTech Book News
