TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smitthipong, Wirasak
AU  - Smitthipong,Wirasak
AU  - Chollakup,Rungsima
AU  - Nardin,Michel
TI  - Bio-based composites for high-performance materials: from strategy to industrial application 
SN  - 9781482214482 (hardback)
AV  - TA418.9.C6 B538 2015
U1  - 620.118 SMI-W 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Composite materials
KW  - Polymeric composites
KW  - Fibrous composites
KW  - Biomass chemicals
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Material Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This timely text integrates disciplines such as materials science, polymer chemistry, plant science, chemical engineering, and nanotechnology to provide comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in bio-based composite materials, as well as their biological feedstocks, basic design principles, properties, industrial applications, environmental friendliness, and life cycles. It presents a strategic and policy-oriented view of bio-based composites, addressing the competing needs for plants as food versus plants as manufacturing feedstocks, while considering the costs of retrofitting existing chemical production plants for bio-based composite manufacture. "--
ER  -