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These are exciting times for biofuels and renewable chemicals. A sense of urgency is driving a frenzy of activity on both research and commercialization fronts. Presciently, the American Chemical Society selected ""Chemistry for a Sustainable World"" as the theme for the Spring 2010 national meeting within which was organized a symposium entitled ""Renewable and Sustainable Polymers"". This book compiles a series of chapters from this symposium and provides a sampling of the promising opportunities and research directions currently underway across the globe. Included are chapters on the synthesis of materials from renewable feedstocks such as seed oils, carbohydrates and proteins as well as chapters on how advances in chemical and biological catalysis are enabling entirely new monomers and polymers.

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Gregory F. Payne is a chemical engineer who has held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and the University of Maryland College Park, where he is currently a Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Institute. Patrick B. Smith currently serves as a Research Scientist at Michigan Molecular Institute. He joined The Dow Chemical Company, rising to the rank of Scientist prior to his retirement in 2007. During his time at Dow, he served with Cargill Dow Polymers which launched the IngeoTM line of poly(lactic acid) products.

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