Assessment of biobased materials
- ed.
Biobased materials are polymers derived from renewable resources by chemical or combined chemical and mechanical methods, or produced directly in biological processes. Combinations of renewable and conventional fossil-fuel-derived plastics are also biobased materials. This assessment reviews materials from renewable resources and their properties including major biopolymers produced by plants and selected animal sources. Examples discussed are wood, its polymeric components such as cellulose and lignin, related polymers such as chitin, other carbohydrate polymers such as starch, which when combined with plastics can impart environmental degradability to the resulting material. The conventional role of inexpensive wood flour as a filler is reviewed as well as the future research necessary to bring these materials into a higher value use as a reinforcing material for composites. Automotive, building, and packaging materials applications are considered. Bioproduction of materials is reviewed for selected polymers such as cellulose, other plant cell wall polymers, and proteins, with emphasis on silk and wool. These materials can be produced with specific properties such as biodegradability (e.g., polyhydroxybutyrate and valerate copolymers, polylactide polymers) or specific mechanical properties.
- Research Organization:
- Solar Energy Research Inst. (SERI), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/CE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 7151941
- Report Number(s):
- SERI/TR-234-3610; ON: DE90000300
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Push for new materials, chemicals from biomass sparks active R and D
Multidisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Support of the Biobased Products Industry
Related Subjects
37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BIOCHEMISTRY
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
BIODEGRADATION
BIOMASS
BIOSYNTHESIS
BUILDINGS
CHITIN
COPOLYMERS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
INDUSTRY
LEADING ABSTRACT
LIGNIN
PLASTICS
POLYMERS
PROCESS CONTROL
PROTEINS
RENEWABLE RESOURCES
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
STARCH
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMOPLASTICS
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
ABSTRACTS
AMINES
CARBOHYDRATES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
CONTROL
DECOMPOSITION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
MATERIALS
MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC POLYMERS
PETROCHEMICALS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
POLYSACCHARIDES
REAGENTS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RESOURCES
SACCHARIDES
SYNTHESIS
SYNTHETIC MATERIALS
360604* - Materials- Corrosion
Erosion
& Degradation
400201 - Chemical & Physicochemical Properties
540210 - Environment
Terrestrial- Basic Studies- (1990-)