Cellulose Nanoparticles: Volume 1: Chemistry and Fundamentals

About

Vijay Kumar Thakur is currently a Professor in New Products from Biomass in the Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre at SRUC Edinburgh UK and also holds an Adjunct Professor position in the Research School of Polymeric Materials Jiangsu University China and is a Visiting Professor at Shiv Nadar University (India) Riga Technical University (Latvia) and Visitor at Cranfield University UK. He has previously held faculty positions at Cranfield University UK Washington State University USA and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His research activities span the disciplines of Biorefining Chemistry Chemical Engineering Manufacturing Materials Science and Nanotechnology as well as all aspects of Sustainable and Advanced Materials. He has published over 250 SCI journal articles 2 patents 50 books and 40 book chapters in areas concerning polymers nanotechnology and materials science (Hi 71 citations >16000). He sits on the editorial board of several SCI journals (e.g. Nature Scientific Reports Industrial Crops & Products Journal of Renewable Materials Advances in Polymer Technology International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization Polymers for Advanced Technologies Biomolecules Nanomaterials Surfaces and Interfaces Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry and Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects) as an Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member. Prof Elisabete Frollini is the Head of the Macromolecular Materials and Lignocellulosic Fiber Group and is currently the coordinator of the Center for Research on Science and Technology of BioResources (Institute of Chemistry of Sao Carlos University of Sao Paulo Sao Carlos Sao Paulo Brazil) Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Crops and Products and Member of the Editorial Board of Cellulose. She has expertise in bio-based polymeric materials (including ultrathin- and nanofibers) from biomass with an emphasis on lignocellulosic biomass which has also been used within the scope of biorefinery. Janet L. Scott is Professor of Sustainable Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Training Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Sustainable Chemical Technologies at the University of Bath. Educated in South Africa (PhD University of Cape Town 1995) she has a background in both industry and academia in three countries: South Africa Australia and the United Kingdom. Janet is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (from 2004) a Titular Member of Division III of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and Secretary of the Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (IUPAC ICGCSD). Her current research focus is on sustainable materials particularly those derived from abundant and renewable biopolymers such as cellulose and she works closely with computational chemists electrochemists chemical and tissue engineering experts physicists mechanical engineers and even architects on a range of interdisciplinary projects including projects funded by the EPSRC Innovate UK and the European Unions H2020 programme. All projects include industrial partners as the conversion of research into sustainable materials into real products that impact directly on the development of more sustainable products and goods is deemed important.