NOVEL POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

Polymeric materials play an essential and ubiquitous role in many fields including structural and packaging materials, drug development, tissue engineering, wastewater treatment, pollutant removal, separation, water purification, smart agriculture, and even road and building construction. This book contains eleven comprehensive chapters covering topics from deriving polymers from natural resources or wastes to developing novel functional polymeric materials in the form of membranes, hydrogels, foams, nanocomposites for various environmental applications. This book also discusses the utilization of waste plastics and the challenges and progress made in recycling and reusing commercially viable polymers. Such information is valuable and accelerates technological progress. Each chapter further gives the current fabrication methodology, challenges, and future scope of these materials related to their environmental applications. Thus anyone working on polymer-based materials will benefit from the comprehensive knowledge presented in this book on novel polymeric materials and their various environmental applications.

Contents:

• Development of Microbial Biopolymers: The Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Products for Environmental Applications (Subhasis Das, Paramita Das, and Banwari Lal)
• Polydopamine-Modified Smart Materials with Special Surface Wettability for Environmental Applications (Van Cuong Mai and Paramita Das)
• Polymeric Membranes for Separation and Purification Applications (Pankaj Kumar, Van Cuong Mai, Subhasis Das, and Paramita Das)
• Recent Advances in Polymer Hydrogels for Agricultural Applications (Roop Singh Lodhi, Subhasis Das, and Paramita Das)
• Polymer Foams in Environmental Applications (Debjyoti Banerjee and Anindya Dutta)
• Production of Eco-friendly Plastics and Bioplastics from Crustacean Shells and Their Environmental Applications (Pravat K Swain, Paramita Das, and Vijayeta Pal)
• Polymers Derived from Natural Resources for Environmentally Friendly Packaging Applications (Ayan Dey, Priyanka Sengupta, and Tanweer Alam)
• Impacts of Bioplastics and Bio-composites in Environmental Applications (Ardhendu Sekhar Giri, Aanchal Mittal, and Sangeeta Garg)
• Road Construction by Waste Polymer: A Solution to Environmental Pollution (Mahuya Das and Paramita Das)
• Additive Manufacturing of Recycled Polymers: Progress, Challenges, and Environmental Aspect (Pawan Verma, Paramita Das, and Aniruddh Vashisth)
• New Developments in Piezoelectric Polymeric Composite Materials for Environmental Energy Usages (Vijayeta Pal, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, and Pravat K Swain)

Readership: The academicians, students, researchers, technologists, and environmental professionals working on polymer-based materials.

Key Features:

• This book provides up-to-date information on biopolymers extraction, waste plastics utilization, and various environmental applications of novel polymeric materials
• This book contains eleven comprehensive chapters and pays particular attention to various polymeric materials such as polymer nanocomposites, membranes, hydrogels, foams, and films, their syntheses, characterizations, properties, and applications
• Each chapter discusses the current fabrication methodology, challenges, and future scope of the novel polymeric materials and their environmental applications