Table of Contents
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 Nanofi bers and Their Composites 11 Shinsuke Ifuku, Zameer Shervani, and Hiroyuki Saimoto
3. Chemical Modifi cation 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 Nanofi bers/Nanowhiskers 131 Jun-Ichi Kadokawa
8. Preparation of Starch Nanoparticles 153 Déborah Le Corre and Alain Dufresne
9. Chemical Modifi cation 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 Hélène 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 Nanofi brillated Cellulose and Cellulose Whiskers 309 David Plackett and Marco Iotti
15. Bacterial Cellulose 339 Eliane Trovatti
16. Chemical Modifi cation of Nanocelluloses 367 Youssef Habibi
17. Cellulose-Based Nanocomposites: Processing Techniques 391 Robert A. Shanks
18. Morphological and Thermal Investigations of Cellulosic 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, Mirna 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 Nanofi bers 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 Hélène Angellier-Coussy, Pascale Chalier, Emmanuelle Gastaldi, Valérie Guillard, Carole Guillaume, Nathalie Gontard, and Stéphane Peyron
Index 655