Cashew Nut Shell Liquid

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Emergence of Sustainable Approaches for Functional Materials: Cashew Nut Shell Liquid and Other Relevant Crop-Based Renewable Resources

   • Srinivas Abbina, Parambath Anilkumar

   Pages 1-17

3. Cashew Nutshell Liquid (CNSL): From an Agro-industrial Waste to a Sustainable Alternative to Petrochemical Resources

   • Diego Lomonaco, Giuseppe Mele, Selma E. Mazzetto

   Pages 19-38

4. Cardanol-Based Heterocycles: Synthesis and Applications

   • Giuseppe Mele, Diego Lomonaco, Selma E. Mazzetto

   Pages 39-56

5. Facile Green Strategy for Preparation of Advanced Structured Materials Based on Amphiphilic Cardanol

   • Ayman M. Atta, Hamad A. Allohedan

   Pages 57-91

6. Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Molecules Derived from Cardanol, A Natural Phenol Derivative: A Summary

   • K. Y. Sandhya, C. K. S. Pillai

   Pages 93-108

7. Cardanol-Derived-Amphiphiles-Based Soft Templates for Conducting Polymer Nanoarchitectures

   • Menachery Jinish Antony, Parambath Anilkumar

   Pages 109-127

8. Cardanol-Based Supramolecular Gels

   • Thomas F. Garrison, Audrey Scholz, Heidi Grimm, Rafael L. Quirino

   Pages 129-143

9. Anacardic Acid and Cardanol: Prospective Applications for Cancer Therapy, Drug Delivery, and Imaging

   • Resmi Anand, Bindu P. Nair

   Pages 145-161

10. Step-Growth Polymers from Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL)-Based Aromatic Difunctional Monomers

    • Deepshikha Chatterjee, Nilakshi V. Sadavarte, Rahul D. Shingte, Arvind S. More, Bhausaheb V. Tawade, Arun D. Kulkarni et al.

    Pages 163-214

11. Cashew Nut Shell Liquid—Natural Solution for Industrial Problems

    • Timothy Stonis, Fernanda Tavares, Anbu Natesh

    Pages 215-230

This book highlights and reviews the renewable feed stock principle of green nanotechnology by focusing the use of plant-derived cardanol as a renewable starting material for the synthesis of advanced materials. The book presents the chemistry of cardanol and methods of isolation, covers macro and nano structures based on cardanol as well as potential applications of such materials. Future perspectives on cardanol based green nanotechnology are highlighted in the final chapter.

• Green Nanotechnology
• Renewable Resources
• Liquid crystals
• Conducting polymers
• Cardanol Derived Materials

• Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Parambath Anilkumar

Anilkumar Parambath is a researcher at the Centre for Blood Research at University of British Columbia, developing blood compatible polymer systems for applications in proteomics and smart catheters. His research and teaching interests are in the wide areas of polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, nanoscience and nanomedicine.

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