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Sustainable Hydrogels

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - January 11, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sabu Thomas, Bhasha Sharma, Purnima Jain, Shashank Shekhar
  • Language: English

Sustainable Hydrogels: Synthesis, Properties and Applications highlights the development of sustainable hydrogels from various perspectives and covers a range of topics, includ… Read more

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Sustainable Hydrogels: Synthesis, Properties and Applications highlights the development of sustainable hydrogels from various perspectives and covers a range of topics, including the development and utilization of abundant and/or inexpensive biorenewable monomers to create hydrogels; the mimicry of variable properties inherent to successful commercial hydrogels; and the creation of bio-based hydrogels that are functional equivalents of fossil fuel-derived hydrogels with respect to their properties, yet are capable of benign degradation over much shorter timescales. Some of the challenges facing sustainable polymer chemistry are also discussed.

Key features

  • Shifts the focus from theory to practice and demonstrates how the cradle-to-cradle approach support sustainability
  • Includes discussion of life cycle assessments in the production and use of hydrogels
  • Presents various materials for the production of hydrogels

Readership

Academic, Postgraduate researchers, and engineers and professionals within Industry

Table of contents

1. Hydrogels: An overview of the history, classification, principles, applications, and kinetics

2. Sustainable production of hydrogels

3. Characterization tools and techniques for sustainable hydrogels

4. Structure-property-function relationships of sustainable hydrogels

5. Nanohydrogels for achieving green economy

6. Peptide and protein-based hydrogels

7. Polysaccharide-based hydrogels

8. Eco-friendly and biodegradable cellulose hydrogels

9. Lignin-derived hydrogels

10. Sustainable polyester hydrogels

11. Carbon-based hydrogels

12. Bioinspired, biomimetic hydrogels

13. Sustainable hydrogels in food packaging systems

14. Sustainable hydrogels as an emerging material platform for water purification

15. Hydrogel-based vascular grafts: State of the art

16. Sustainable hydrogel-based cell therapy

17. Hydrogels and their combination with lipids and nucleotides

18. Complementing the circular economy with a life cycle assessment of sustainable hydrogels and their future prospects

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 11, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Sabu Thomas

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

BS

Bhasha Sharma

Dr. Bhasha Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, India. She received her BSc (2011) in Polymer Sciences from the University of Delhi, and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2019. Her research interests revolve around sustainable polymers for packaging applications, environmentally benign approaches for biodegradation of plastic wastes, fabrication of bionanocomposites, and finding strategies to ameliorate the electrochemical activity of biopolymers.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, University of Delhi, India

PJ

Purnima Jain

Dr. Purnima Jai is an Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry in Netaji Subhas University of Technology. She is the founder of laboratory “Advance Centre for Polymer Science in Department of Chemistry in NSUT. She has completed her M. Tech and Doctorate from Centre for Polymer Science & Technology, IIT Delhi. Besides teaching chemistry her general research interests are development and characterization of blends, alloys and nanocomposites of polymers.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India

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Shashank Shekhar

Shashank Shekhar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, India Dr. Shashank Shekhar is currently an Assistant Professor at Netaji Subhas University of Technology and is also associated with the Quantum Research Centre of Excellence as Associate Director in the Department of Renewable Energy. He completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Delhi. Dr. Shekhar has been working on biopolymers and Schiff base metal complexes for the last 5 years and has published articles in reputed international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, India

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