Green polymer chemistry is a very active area of research that has attracted the attention of the scientific community and the public at large‎.‎ Developments in this area are stimulated by health and environmental concerns‎,‎ interest in sustainability‎,‎ desire to decrease the dependence on petroleum‎,‎ and opportunity to design and produce ‎"‎green‎"‎ products and processes‎.‎ A large number of publications have appeared‎,‎ and many new methodologies have been reported‎.‎ In consideration of the rapid advances in this area‎,‎ the editors organized an international symposium on ‎"‎Green Polymer Chemistry‎:‎ Biocatalysis and Biobased Materials‎"‎ at the American Chemical Society ‎(‎ACS‎)‎ national meeting in Philadelphia‎,‎ PA in August 2012‎.‎ The symposium was very successful‎,‎ with a total of 63 papers and active participation and discussions among the leading researchers‎.‎ Whereas all aspects of Green Polymer Chemistry were covered‎,‎ a particular emphasis was placed on biocatalysis and biobased materials‎.‎ Biocatalysis involves the use of enzymes‎,‎ microbes‎,‎ and higher organisms to carry out chemical reactions‎.‎It provides exciting opportunities to manipulate polymer structures‎,‎ to discover new reaction pathways‎,‎ and to devise environmentally friendly processes‎.‎ It also benefits from innovations in biotechnology which enables cheaper and improved enzymes to be made and customized polymeric materials to be produced in vivo using metabolic engineering‎.‎ Biobased materials also represent an equally exciting opportunity that has found many industrial and medical applications‎.‎ There is commonality with biocatalysis because many biobased products are biodegradable‎,‎ where enzymes and/or microbes are involved‎.‎ This book was compiled and edited in view of the success of the Philadelphia symposium‎,‎ and the fact that this field is multidisciplinary where publications tend to be spread out over journals in different disciplines‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Cheng‎,‎ H‎.‎ N‎.‎‎;‎ Smith‎,‎ Patrick B‎.‎‎;‎ Gross‎,‎ Richard A‎.‎
• Publisher‎:‎ Oxford University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780841228955