Sustainable Hydrogels
Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

Highlights the development of sustainable hydrogels from various perspectives and discusses some of the challenges facing sustainable polymer chemistry

Sabu Thomas (Edited by), Bhasha Sharma (Edited by), Purnima Jain (Edited by), Shashank Shekhar (Edited by)

9780323917537, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 11 January 2023

538 pages, 160 illustrations (120 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.45 kg

Sustainable Hydrogels: Synthesis, Properties and Applications highlights the development of sustainable hydrogels from various perspectives and covers a range of topics, including the development and utilization of abundant and/or inexpensive biorenewable monomers to create hydrogels; the mimicry of variable properties inherent to successful commercial hydrogels; and the creation of bio-based hydrogels that are functional equivalents of fossil fuel-derived hydrogels with respect to their properties, yet are capable of benign degradation over much shorter timescales. Some of the challenges facing sustainable polymer chemistry are also discussed.

1. Hydrogels: An overview of the history, classification, principles, applications, and kinetics 2. Sustainable production of hydrogels 3. Characterization tools and techniques for sustainable hydrogels 4. Structure-property-function relationships of sustainable hydrogels 5. Nanohydrogels for achieving green economy 6. Peptide and protein-based hydrogels 7. Polysaccharide-based hydrogels 8. Eco-friendly and biodegradable cellulose hydrogels 9. Lignin-derived hydrogels 10. Sustainable polyester hydrogels 11. Carbon-based hydrogels 12. Bioinspired, biomimetic hydrogels 13. Sustainable hydrogels in food packaging systems 14. Sustainable hydrogels as an emerging material platform for water purification 15. Hydrogel-based vascular grafts: State of the art 16. Sustainable hydrogel-based cell therapy 17. Hydrogels and their combination with lipids and nucleotides 18. Complementing the circular economy with a life cycle assessment of sustainable hydrogels and their future prospects

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]