Non-Polysaccharide Plant Polymeric Materials

• Main Author: Jose Alejandro Heredia-Guerrero (auth)
• Other Authors: Athanassia Athanassiou (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Chemistry; Cutin; Plant polymers; CORK; suberin; Agro-waste; Kerogen; sporopollenin
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Plants are the most important renewable source of feedstock for polymeric materials. They are a resource of monomers and macromolecules after the appropriate chemical treatment. By analogy with the petrochemistry industry, plant macromolecules are depolymerized into simpler units which are generally...