High Performance Plant Phenol-Based Polymers brings together the latest advances in phenol-based polymers, composites, and nanocomposites, covering synthesis, preparation, characterization, processing, and applications.
Bio-renewable plant phenols represent a diverse class of chemicals with great industrial significance due to their unique structures and high abundance. The depolymerization process of lignin into small bio-based phenols is a relatively new approach and has received considerable attention recently.
This process produces key intermediates, phenolic compounds that can be used to develop and design a wide range of high-performance, bio-renewable, and multifunctional polymers and composites.
This book will provide materials scientists and engineers with a useful framework to help take advantage of the latest research conducted in this rapidly advancing field, enabling them to develop and commercialize their own products quickly and more successfully. The book will be of practical interest to academic researchers, industrial scientists, engineers, and advanced students in the area of materials science and engineering, particularly those with an interest in high-performance bio-based polymers and composites.
- Reviews the current state-of-the-art in phenol-based polymers, composites, and nanocomposites
- Guides the reader through the preparation of a range of advanced polymers based on plant phenols
- Provides a critical review of current applications in various fields, such biomedicine and automotive
Samy Madbouly is a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He served as a senior research scientist at the School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, and at the Center for Biomaterial Development, Institute of Polymer Research, GKSS, Germany. He also worked as assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University and School of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Senior Polymer Engineer at Schlumberger, USA.
Chaoqun Zhang is a Full Professor at the College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, China. Prof. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 from Iowa State University, USA. Following his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota from 2014 to 2015, and at Texas A&M University, USA, from 2015 to 2016, before returning to China.
