Polyester III: Applications and Products: Applications and Products

Author: Yoshiji Tsuchiya
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This volume introduces cutting-edge research on environmentally friendly biodegradable polymers, providing insightful elaboration on the optimization of novel biodegradable and non-toxic packaging materials for pharmaceuticals, as well as advancements in the production of traditional materials. It is an invaluable reference for researchers in both biology and materials science, and can also serve as a teaching resource for university faculty and students. This volume focuses on the applications and industrial products of polyesters synthesized biologically, semi-synthetically, and fully synthetically. Chapters 1 and 2 summarize their properties and general applications. Chapters 3 and 4 respectively introduce the large-scale application of microbial PHA and the use of PHA in the pharmaceutical field. The following eight chapters concentrate on polyesters and their structural analogs: PLA (Chapter 5), ethylene carbonate and its copolymer with lactic acid (Chapter 6), polyanhydrides (Chapter 7), NatureWorks? PLA (Chapter 8), and LACEA (Chapter 9) as commercial PLA products, aliphatic polyesters Bionolle (Chapter 10), aliphatic-aromatic polyesters Ecoflex (Chapter 11), and polyamide esters BAK (Chapter 12). The last two chapters of this volume focus on the chemical modification of natural and synthetic polyesters (Chapter 13) and the production of chiral and other valuable compounds from microbial polyesters (Chapter 14). Rapid progress in interdisciplinary research between biology and materials science has significantly advanced the study of biodegradable polymers, with one of the hotspots being the synthesis of novel biodegradable polyesters.