Foreword ...................................................... vii
Contributors ................................................... ix
1 Bionanocomposites: State of the Art, Challenges, and
Opportunities ................................................ 1
Alain Dufresne, Sabu Thomas, and Laly A. Pothan
2 Preparation of Chitin Nanofibers and Their Composites ....... 11
Shinsuke Ifuku, Zameer Shervani, and Hiroyuki Saimoto
3 Chemical Modification of Chitosan and Its Biomedical
Application ................................................. 33
Deepa Thomas and Sabu Thomas
4 Biomimetic Lessons for Processing Chitin-Based Composites ... 53
Otto C. Wilson, Jr. and Tiffany Omokanwaye
5 Morphological and Thermal Investigations of Chitin-Based
Nanocomposites .............................................. 83
Ming Zeng, Liyuan Lu, and Qingyu Xu
6 Mechanical Properties of Chitin-Based Nanocomposites ....... 111
Merin Sara Thomas, Laly A. Pothan, and Sabu Thomas
7 Preparation and Applications of Chitin Nanofibers/
Nanowhiskers ............................................... 131
Jun-Ichi Kadokawa
8 Preparation of Starch Nanoparticles ........................ 153
Déborah Le Corre and Alain Dufresne
9 Chemical Modification of Starch Nanoparticles .............. 181
Jin Huang, Qing Huang, Peter R. Chang, and Jiahui Yu
10 Starch-Based Bionanocomposite: Processing Techniques ....... 203
Rekha Rose Koshy, Laly A. Pothan, and Sabu Thomas
11 Morphological and Thermal Investigations of Starch-Based
Nanocomposites ............................................. 227
Peter R. Chang, Jin Huang, Qing Huang, and Debbie
P. Anderson
12 Mechanical Properties of Starch-Based Nanocomposites ....... 261
Helene Angellier-Coussy and Alain Dufresne
13 Applications of Starch Nanoparticles and Starch-Based
Bionanocomposites .......................................... 293
Siji K. Mary, Laly A. Pothan, and Sabu Thomas
14 Preparation of Nanofibrillated Cellulose and Cellulose
Whiskers ................................................... 309
David Plackett and Marco Iotti
15 Bacterial Cellulose ........................................ 339
Eliane Trovatti
16 Chemical Modification of Nanocelluloses .................... 367
Youssef Habibi
17 Cellulose-Based Nanocomposites: Processing Techniques ...... 391
Robert A. Shanks
18 Morphological and Thermal Investigations of Cellulosae
Bionanocomposites .......................................... 411
Anayancy Osorio-Madrazo and Marie-Pierre Laborie
19 Mechanical Properties of Cellulose-Based
Bionanocomposites .......................................... 437
B. Deepa, Saumya S. Pillai, Laly A. Pothan, and Sabu
Thomas
20 Review of Nanocellulosic Products and Their Applications ... 461
Joe Aspler, Jean Bouchard, Wadood Hamad, Richard Berry,
Stephanie Beck, François Drolet, and Xuejun Zou
21 Spectroscopic Characterization of Renewable Nanoparticles
and Their Composites ....................................... 509
Mirta I. Aranguren, Mima A. Mosiewicki, and Norma
E. Marcovich
22 Barrier Properties of Renewable Nanomaterials .............. 541
Vikas Mittal
23 Biocomposites and Nanocomposites Containing Lignin ......... 565
Cornelia Vasile and Georgeta Cazacu
24 Preparation, Processing and Applications of Protein
Nanofibers ................................................. 599
Megan Garvey, Madhusudan Vasudevamurthy, Shiva P. Rao,
Heath Ecroyd, Juliet A. Gerrard, and John A. Carver
25 Protein-Based Nanocomposites for Food Packaging ............ 613
Helene Angellier-Coussy, Pascale Chalier, Emmanuelle
Gastaldi, Valérie Guillard, Carole Guillaume, Nathalie
Gontard, and Stéphane Peyron
Index ......................................................... 655
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