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Charles E. Carraher
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Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
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L. H. Sperling
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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar the acacia-tree and the myrtle and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; That they may see, and know and consider and understand together, That the hand of the Lord hath done this, ••• Isaiah, 41:19 and 20 (first portion) The need to improve our utilization of the Earth's natural resources is everyone's business, from every country. This book presents papers from all parts of the world on the subject of making new or improved polymers from renewable resources, be they plastics, elastomers, fibers, coatings, or adhesives. In important ways, this book constitutes part II of an edited work published by Plenum Press in 1983, "Polymer Applications of Renewable-Resource Materials. " To that extent, about half of the authors are the same. However, their papers present an update of their research three years later. The other half of the authors are entirely new. Bo~h of these books grew out of symposia sponsored by the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society. The papers for the present book are based loosely on a symposium held at the Miami Beach meeting in April, 1985. Unfortunately, interest in polymers from renewable resources fluctuates with the price and availability of petroleum oil. At the time of writing this preface, the price is low, and appears to be headed lower still.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Review
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- L. H. Sperling, C. E. Carraher Jr.
Pages 3-26
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Saccharides and Polysaccharides
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- M. B. Amin, A. G. Maadhah, A. M. Usmani
Pages 29-39
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- Arthur J. Stipanovic, P. J. Giammatteo, S. B. Robie
Pages 41-52
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- Yoshinobu Naoshima, Charles E. Carraher Jr., Satomi Hirono, Tamara S. Bekele, Phillip D. Mykytiuk
Pages 53-62
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- Yoshinobu Naoshima, Charles E. Carraher Jr., Koichi Matsumoto
Pages 63-73
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- M. B. Amin, A. G. Maadhah, A. M. Usmani
Pages 75-82
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Graft Polysaccharides
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- Bohuslav V. Kokta, Famakan Dembélé, Claude Daneault
Pages 85-96
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- Claude Daneault, Bohuslav V. Kokta
Pages 97-105
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- George F. Fanta, Robert C. Burr, William M. Doane
Pages 107-114
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- Ernst Bayer, Wilhelm Schumann, Kurt E. Geckeler
Pages 115-125
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- Ernst Bayer, Martin Keck, Kurt E. Geckeler
Pages 127-135
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- Ramani Narayan, Margaret Shay
Pages 137-146
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- Satish Kumar, Kamini Kohli
Pages 147-160
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Oils
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Front Matter
Pages 161-161
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- J. Kumanotani, K. Inoue, M. Achiwa, L. W. Chen
Pages 163-176
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- A. M. Fernandez, J. A. Manson, L. H. Sperling
Pages 177-186
Editors and Affiliations
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Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Charles E. Carraher
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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA
L. H. Sperling