Overview
- Provides an up-to-date account of the research in the field of biomaterials for food industry
- Examines the applications and environmental impact of a variety of biopolymers in food packaging
- Tackles brilliantly, a very pressing issue of environmental pollution through plastic waste in food industry
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Shakeel Ahmed, PhD, is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Government Degree College Mendhar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He worked as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi), New Delhi and as a Research Fellow at Bio/Polymers Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of biopolymers and bionanocomposites. He has published several research publications on green nanomaterials and biopolymers for various applications, including biomedical, packaging, sensors, and water treatment. He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), USA, associate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, member of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden and life member of the Asian Polymer Association and Society of Materials Chemistry (India). He is an active reviewer and member of the editorial boards of severalreputed journals. He has published numerous books with leading international publishers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bio-based Materials for Food Packaging
Book Subtitle: Green and Sustainable Advanced Packaging Materials
Editors: Shakeel Ahmed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1909-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1908-2Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1909-9Published: 05 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 303
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Science, Biomaterials, Polymer Sciences, Waste Management/Waste Technology