Sustainability & Green Polymer Chemistry Volume 1 Green Products and Processes

Developing green products and processes

Polymers can play a major role in the pursuit of sustainability and the design of chemical products and processes that are more eco-friendly, biodegradable, and less hazardous. This work explores recent research developments and applications in polymer science and their connections to sustainability and green chemistry. Chapter topics include green sustainable products from plant oils, green processes and materials, green materials for medicine, and green polymer additives. Scientists, engineers, educators, and students involved or interested in green polymer chemistry and sustainability will find this book useful.

H. N. Cheng (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is currently a research chemist at Southern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans, where he works on projects involving improved utilization of commodity agricultural materials, green chemistry, and polymer
reactions. Prior to 2009 he worked for Hercules Incorporated where he was involved at various times with new product development, team and project leadership, new business evaluation, pioneering research, and supervision of analytical research. Over the years, his research interests have included
green polymer chemistry, agro-based materials, biocatalysis, pulp and paper chemistry, functional foods, polymer characterization, and NMR spectroscopy. An ACS Fellow (2009), a POLY Fellow (2010), and an AGFD Fellow (2018), he has authored or co-authored over 280 papers, 26 patent publications,
co-edited 21 books, and organized or co-organized 40 symposia since 2000. He is currently (2020) the President-Elect of ACS and will serve as ACS President in 2021.

Richard A. Gross (Ph.D., Polytechnic University) holds Constellation Chaired Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is also a member of RPI's Departments of Chemistry and Biology as well as Biomedical Engineering. Previously he was on the faculty of University of Massachusetts
(Lowell) (1988?1998) and occupied the Herman F. Mark Chair Professorship at Polytechnic University (1998-2013). His research is focused on developing biocatalytic routes to biobased materials, combining chemical methods with cell-free and whole-cell biocatalytic systems to produce a large number of
new biobased materials. He has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals with approximately 26,000 citations, has edited 7 books, and has been granted or filed 26 patents. He has received numerous awards, including Presidential Green Chemistry Award in the academic category (2003), induction
into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2007), Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor (2010), POLY Fellow (2015), Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society (2017) and the 2018 recipient of the Affordable Green Chemistry Award from the ACS.

Preface

Chapter 1: Sustainability and Green Polymer Chemistry - An Overview, H.N. Cheng and Richard A. Gross

Green Sustainable Products from Plant Oils
Chapter 2: Soybeans and Beyond, How Bioadvantaged Polymers Are Forming the Foundations for the 21st-Century Bioeconomy, Nacú B. Hernández and Eric Cochran
Chapter 3: Emulsion Polymerization of Plant Oil-Based Acrylic Monomers: Resourceful Platform for Biobased Waterborne Materials, Ananiy Kohut, Stanislav Voronov, Zoriana Demchuk, Vasylyna Kirianchuk, Kyle Kingsley, Oleh Shevchuk, and Andriy Voronov

Green Processes and Materials
Chapter 4: Nature-Inspired Resins for Additive Manufacturing, Alexander W. Bassett, Amy E. Honnig, Claire M. Breyta, Ian C. Dunn, and Joseph F. Stanzione
Chapter 5: Sustainable Photo-curable Polymers in Additive Manufacturing Arena: A Review, Adhimoolam Bakthavachalam Kousaalya
Chapter 6: Foam Templating: A Greener Route to Porous Polymers, Qixiang Jiang, Koonyang Lee, and Alexander Bismarck
Chapter 7: Synthesis and Characterization of Plasma Crosslinked Electrospun Fiber Mats from Allyl-Functionalized Polysuccinimide, Kristóf Molnár, Eniko Krisch, Benjamin Jozsa, Dora Barczikai, Angéla Jedlovszky-Hajdú, Miroslawa El Fray, and Judit E. Puskas

Green Materials for Medicine
Chapter 8: Green Chemistry Principles In Advancing Hierarchical Functionalization of Polymer-Based Nanomedicines, Shuang Song, Kaitlyn Ngo, and Kathryn Uhrich
Chapter 9: Thermoresponsive Biodegradable Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Application, Jun Akimoto and Yoshihiro Ito
Chapter 10: Green Hydrogels Based on Starch: Preparation Methods for Biomedical Applications, Kevin J. Edgar and Joyann A. Marks

Green Polymer Additives
Chapter 11: Phosphorus Flame Retardants from Crop Plant Phenolic Acids, Bob A. Howell, Eric A. Ostrander, and Kendahl L. Oberdorfer
Chapter 12: Reactive Flame Retardants from Starch-Derived Isosorbide, Bob A. Howell and Yoseph G. Daniel

Editors' Biographies
Author Index
Subject Index