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Title: Assessment of biobased materials

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. ed.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Solar Energy Research Inst. (SERI), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/CE
OSTI Identifier:
7151941
Report Number(s):
SERI/TR-234-3610
ON: DE90000300
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-83CH10093
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 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-)

Citation Formats

Chum, H. L. Assessment of biobased materials. United States: N. p., 1989. Web. doi:10.2172/7151941.
Chum, H. L. Assessment of biobased materials. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7151941
Chum, H. L. 1989. "Assessment of biobased materials". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7151941. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7151941.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
month = {Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1989}
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