Biopolymers Casein Its Preparation And Use A Practical Handbook

The major use of casein currently is as a foodstuff. There have been some inroads recently to using it as a renewable biopolymer resource but development is pretty much in its infancy. This has been the case from the first extraction of casein as cheese to a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century when it enjoyed popularity as a plastic material - Galalith. That is until the outbreak of the Second World War where it disappeared into obscurity when faced with the demand for food pr...