Overview
- Discusses the importance of biopolymers to mitigate climate changes
- Presents advances in green extraction technologies
- Describes biopolymers obtained from waste biomass
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials (SSPCM)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Swati Sharma is working as Assistant professor at University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University Mohali, India. She has completed her PhD. from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. She also worked as a visiting researcher in the college of life and environmental sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul South Korea. Dr. Sharma has completed her masters (M.Sc.) from Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India. She has also worked as a program co-coordinator at the Himalayan action research center Dehradun and Senior research fellow at India agricultural research institute in 2013-2014. Dr. Sharma has published her research papers in reputed international journals. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nano-fibers and nano-particles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anticancer activities and sponges. Dr. Swati has published 25 research papers in various internationally reputed journals, 9 books, and a couple of book chapters.
Prof. Dr. Rajeev Bhat is the ERA-Chair holder in VALORTECH (Food By-products Valorization Technologies) at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EU. He is an internationally recognized researcher engaged in the field of ‘Sustainable Food Production’ and ‘Food Security.’ Prof. Bhat has more than two decades of international experience gained by working in India, South Korea, Malaysia, Germany, Fiji Islands and now in Estonia. To date, he has published nearly 250 research articles in ISI based journals, as refereed book chapters, etc. He has edited 09 books, authored 01 book, and presently editing 06 books (with leading publishers like Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell and Springer). He is on the editorial board ofleading international journals, and has been a scientific committee member and invited speaker in various seminars, workshops and conferences in the field of agri-food technology. His name now figures in the World’s top 2% of scientists in the field of Food Science & Technology as per the survey done by Stanford University-based researchers. He has completed several sponsored research and consultancy projects with funding received from various agencies. At the international level, he also contributes as a panel of experts reviewing various research funding proposals. He has a scholarly H-index of 50 in Google scholar and an H-index of 43 in the Scopus database. Earlier, he had held visiting faculty positions in many of the higher education (academic and research) institutions. Prof. Bhat is also a recipient of several prestigious international awards and recognitions conferred by various institutions of higher learning and research establishments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biopolymers
Book Subtitle: Recent Updates, Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Ashok Kumar Nadda, Swati Sharma, Rajeev Bhat
Series Title: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98392-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98391-8Published: 24 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98394-9Published: 25 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98392-5Published: 23 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2364-1878
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 410
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Chemistry/Food Science, general, Biomaterials, Green Chemistry