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Anilkumar Parambath is a researcher at the Centre for Blood Research at University of British Columbia, developing blood compatible polymer systems for applications in proteomics and smart catheters. His research and teaching interests are in the wide areas of polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, nanoscience and nanomedicine.

Preface.- Methods of Isolation and Chemistry of Cardanol.- Cardanol Derived Surfactants and Their Nanomicelles.- Cardanol Based High Performance Macromolecules.- Cardanol Based Self-assembled Nanostructures.- Cardanol Derived Nano-templates.- Cardanol Metal Nano-hybrid Assemblies.- Cardanol Based Liquid Crystals and NLO materials.- Cardanol Based Materials in Nanomedicine.- Industrial Applications of Cardanol Derived Materials.- Future Perspectives on Cardanol Based Green Nanotechnology.- Subject Index.