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BioProducts derived from renewable resources represent a movement towards a more sustainable future. This book highlights developments – from discovery through scale-up and commercialization – across all major sectors. The new edition adds discussion in policy, innovations, and life cycle analysis. BioProducts are emerging as a major transition towards a circular economy with proactive designs towards mitigating waste, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and reusing and recycling resources in both a sustainable and a profitable manner. BioProducts represent a worldwide mega-trend in research and commercialization movement without being “trendy,” having established research aims and evidence-based commercialization sectors. This volume provides updates from the previous edition, while adding new content on policy implications, global climate change, life cycle analysis, and related segments of interest such as biochar. This book is relevant to a diverse audience, from students and lab-based researchers in sustainable, green, and industrial chemistry, to materials scientists and those interested in biomaterials and natural materials, as well as business and management commercialization practitioners.
Dr. Rachel A. Yoho is the Assistant Director of the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning and a university affiliate faculty member of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, both at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She is an multiple award-winning professor, and Fulbright specialist awardee, with an interdisciplinary background in biotechnology and bioproducts, as well as a particular emphasis on impacts of global climate change and social/environmental justice.
Dr. Ram Lalgudi has an impressive track record of over 25 years in strategic product development and commercialization. His profound expertise in transforming bio-based feedstocks into innovative specialty functional materials has led to successful applications across key sectors, including advanced smart coatings, encapsulation techniques, controlled release of active ingredients, animal feeds, and effective bioremediation solutions. Ram holds 40 U.S. patents and has authored more than 25 influential research articles. His exceptional contributions have earned him four prestigious R&D 100 awards. In 2018, he launched Aries Science & Technology, a pioneering venture dedicated to the development of biobased functional materials, empowering customers to meet and exceed their sustainability objectives.