Non-Polysaccharide Plant Polymeric Materials

• Главный автор: Jose Alejandro Heredia-Guerrero (auth)
• Другие авторы: Athanassia Athanassiou (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Серии: Frontiers Research Topics
• Предметы: Chemistry; Cutin; Plant polymers; CORK; suberin; Agro-waste; Kerogen; sporopollenin
• Online-ссылка: 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...