Short description:

Advances in Sustainable Biomaterials: Bioprocessing 4.0, Characterizations, and Applications presents key chapters on smart biopolymer composites production, and processing methods and provides a wide range of applications in a variety of fields such as medical, food, agriculture, electronics, manufacturing, and chemical engineering.

Long description:

Sustainable biomaterials are used as substitutions for traditional materials in aerospace, automotive, civil, mechanical, environmental engineering, medical, and other industries. This book presents the current knowledge and recent developments on the characterization and application of sustainable biomaterials with biomanufacturing 4.0 techniques. The book also describes the unique properties of various classes of sustainable biomaterials, making them highly suitable for many industrial applications.

Advances in Sustainable Biomaterials: Bioprocessing 4.0, Characterizations, and Applications presents key chapters on smart biopolymer composites production and processing methods and provides a wide range of applications in a variety of fields such as medical, food, agriculture, electronics, manufacturing, and chemical engineering. The book features the most recent and detailed information on advancements in biopolymer biomaterials and emphasizes synthesis, characterization, modeling, manufacturing, and testing strategies.

Written to be used as a resource guide on biomaterials and innovations, undergraduate and postgraduate students studying manufacturing and materials science will find this book very useful in addition to those working in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and electronics engineering fields. The book can also be used as additional classroom reading for an advanced course on biomaterials modeling and optimization.

Table of Contents:

1. Biopolymer composites for sustainable and green technology.  2. A Feasibility study on Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass & Control Parameters in Anaerobic Digestion Process.  3. Lignocellulose based Sustainable Biomaterials.  4. Thermo Bi-Metal: A Sustainable Biomaterial for Breathing Façade.  5. Lignocellulose-based sustainable biomaterials in fabrication of pharmaceutical products.  6. Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Sustainable Biomaterials.  7. Smart Sustainable Biomaterials and their Recent Advancement for Targeting the Nervous System.  8. Processing of sustainable biomaterials by additive manufacturing methods.  9. Comprehensive characterization of biochar from coconut shell pyrolysis: Effect of temperature.  10. Applications of sustainable biomaterials in the pharmaceutical and medical field.  11. The Utilization of Biomaterials in the Diagnostic, Preventive, and Therapeutic Approaches for the Management of Covid-19.  12. An intriguing, versatile, and sustainable biomaterial: Nanocellulose.  13. Sustainable biomaterials for pharmaceutical and medical applications.  14. Polymeric Biomaterials for potential Pharmaceutical and biomedical Applications.  15. The Advent of biopolymers for Potential applications in Medical and Pharma Sector.  16. Applications of biopolymers in the agriculture and food industry.