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Functionalized Biopolymers

Design, Developments, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - September 25, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Swati Sharma, Ashok Kumar Nadda, Kalim Deshmukh, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
  • Language: English

Functionalized Biopolymers: Design, Developments, and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art, recent advances, and emerging challe… Read more

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Description

Functionalized Biopolymers: Design, Developments, and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art, recent advances, and emerging challenges in the field of functionalized biopolymers. The book covers various fundamental aspects, such as extraction and processing methods, properties, classification, and characterizations of biopolymers. In addition, it discusses their applications across diverse industries, including biomedical, cosmetics, agriculture, electronics, and environmental science. Users will find an in-depth analysis of the morphological, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and viscoelastic properties of functionalized biopolymers.

This book will serve as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals seeking practical guidance on the development of high-performance functionalized biopolymers tailored to diverse applications.

Key features

  • Covers the fundamental science behind functionalized biopolymers, the latest advancements, and future research directions
  • Explores a diverse range of applications, spanning industries such as biomedical, cosmetic, textile, agriculture, sensing, and various other fields
  • Addresses other key considerations, such as the application of a lifecycle analysis approach to biopolymers, recycling strategies, and the distinct advantages of biopolymers compared to synthetic polymers

Readership

Researchers, scientists, and advanced students in polymer science, bio-based materials, plastics engineering and materials science and engineering, R&D, engineers, and industrialists interested in the development of biopolymers for advanced applications

Table of contents

Section 1: Classifications, Production Techniques and Surface Modifications

1. Biopolymers: Classifications, Production and Processing Techniques, Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

2. Natural vs. Synthetic Polymers: Advances, Limitations and Opportunities

3. Biocompatibility, Biodegradability, Toxicity, Life Cycle Analysis, Social Economic Aspects, Environmental and Health Impact of Biopolymers

4. Physical and Chemical Modifications of Biopolymers

Section II: Properties and Characterizations

5. Spectroscopic and Microscopic Characterizations of Functionalized Biopolymers

6. Thermal, Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Functionalized Biopolymers

7. 3D Printing of Functionalized Biopolymers: Design, Processes and Applications

8. Functionalized Biopolymers Based Hydrogels: Synthesis, Characterizations and Applications

9. Functional Biopolymer Composites: Fabrications and Characterizations

Section III: Applications in Biomedical Fields

10. Functionalized Biopolymer Composites for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications

11. Functionalized Biopolymers for Drug Delivery Applications

12. Functionalized Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering Applications

13. Functionalized Biopolymers in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Applications

Section IV: Applications in Agriculture, Food, Cosmetic and Textile Industry

14. Functionalized Biopolymers in Agriculture

15. Applications of Functionalized Biopolymers in Food Industry and Packaging

16. Functionalized Biopolymers in Cosmetic Industry

17. Functionalized Biopolymers in Textile Industry

Section V: Sensing, Electronics and Coating Applications

18. Functionalized Biopolymers for Sensing and Biosensing

19. Functionalized Biopolymers for Electronic and Bioelectronic Devices

20. Functionalized Biopolymers Based Coatings and Adhesives Section V: Environmental Applications

21. Functionalized Biopolymers for Adsorptive Removal of Dyes and Toxic Environmental Pollutants

22. Biopolymers in Water Treatment

23. Biopolymers in Renewable Energy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 25, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Swati Sharma

Dr. Swati Sharma (MSc, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India; PhD. University Malaysia, Pahang, Malaysia) is Assistant Professor at University Institute of Biotechnology, the Chandigarh University Mohali, India. She worked as a visiting researcher in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. She has also worked as a program co-coordinator at the Himalayan Action Research Center (HARC), Dehradun, and Senior Research Fellow at the India Agricultural Research Institute in 2013-2014. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nano-fibers and nano-particles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anticancer activities and sponges. Dr. Swati has published numerous books and papers in various internationally reputed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

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Ashok Kumar Nadda

Dr. Ashok Kumar Nadda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Jaypee University of Information Technology, India. His research interests are microbial biotechnology, biocatalysis, biopolymers, enzyme immobilization, bioenergy, and CO2 conversion.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India

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Kalim Deshmukh

Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization, and property investigations of novel polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers, including various nanomaterials including carbon-based materials such as carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, and MXenes for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

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