Renewable and Sustainable Polymers

Gregory F. Payne is a chemical engineer who has held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and the University of Maryland College Park, where he is currently a Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Institute. Patrick B. Smith currently serves as a Research Scientist at Michigan Molecular Institute. He joined The Dow Chemical Company, rising to the rank of Scientist prior to his retirement in 2007. During his time at Dow, he served with Cargill Dow Polymers which launched the IngeoTM line of poly(lactic acid) products.

1. The Emergence of Renewable and Sustainable Polymers 2. Copolyester Synthesis Using Glycerol from Biodiesel Production Massoud J. Miri, Keelyn E. Nori, Rebecca M. Andrew, and Changfeng Ge 3. Bioplastics, Biocomposites, and Biocoatings from Natural Oils Rafael L. Quirino and Richard C. Larock 4. Biofabrication: Enlisting the Unique Capabilities of Biological Polymers for Hierarchical Construction Benjamin D. Liba, India V. Aranha, Eunkyoung Kim, and Gregory F. Payne 5. Polyurethanes from Hybrid Vegetable Oil/Petrochemical Polyester Polyols Mihail Ionescu, Ye Ji, William M. Shirley, and Zoran S. Petrovi? 6. Revitalizing Chemurgy: Chemicals from Agricultural Resources Patrick B. Smith 7. Cellulosic-Derived Levulinic Ketal Esters: A New Building Block Cora Leibig, Brian Mullen, Tara Mullen, Lee Rieth, and Vivek Badarinarayana 8. Biopolymers, Processing, and Biodegradation Bo Shi, Vasily Topolkaraev, and James Wang 9. Flame Retardants Based on Tartaric Acid: A Renewable By-Product of the Wine Industry B. A. Howell, K. E. Carter, and H. Dangalle 10. Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide Triggered by Supramolecular Organocatalytic Systems Joji Kadota, Sylvain Koeller, Dra%zen Pavlovi?, Jean-Pierre Desvergne, Brigitte Bibal, Frederic Peruch, and Alain Deffieux 11. Zinc Complexes with Mono- and Polydentate Behaving Guanidine Ligands and Their Application in Lactide Polymerization Janna Borner, Ines dos Santos Vieira, Ulrich Florke, Artjom Doring, Dirk Kuckling, and Sonja Herres-Pawlis Author Index Subject Index