Degradable Polymers and Materials: Principles and Practice Book

1. Introduction, Carmen Scholz and Kishan Khemani
2. Natural Polymers Emulsion-Alignate Microspheres as a New Vehicle for Protein Delivery, Guillermo Castro, Emilia Bora, Bruce Panilaitis and David Kaplan
Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Short-Chain-Length-Medium-Chain-Length Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biosynthesis Physical Properties, Structure Analysis, and Enzymatic Degradation of Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyvalerate] Films and Fibers, Tadahisa Iwata, Toshihisa Tanaka, Norihito Adachi, Masashi Hasegawa, Shinya Teramachi, and Yoshiharu Doi
Bacterial Poly(b-hydroxybutyrate) - Hydrophilized and Colored, K. Busse, H. Budde, C. Scholz, and J. Kressler
Modifications of Soybean Oil Using Novel Ozone Based Chemistry, Daniel Graiver, Phuong Tran, Laura Patrick, Ken Farminer, and Ramani Narayan
3. Synthetic Polyesters Poly(lactic acids) - A Brief Review, J.R. Dorgan, B. Braun, J.R. Wegner, D.M. Knauss
Biocatalytic Synthesis of Ricinoleic Acid Star Polymers : "Green" Manufacturing of Potentially Valuable Lubricant Additives and Drug Delivery Materials, Douglas G. Hayes
Multifunctional Polyester-Based Materials with Controlled Degradability, Daniel Grande, Estelle Renard, Valérie Langlois, Géraldine Rohman, Laurianne Timbart, and Philippe Guérin
PLA-PEO-PLA Triblock Copolymers: Synthesis and Thermal Properties, Naomi Sanabria-DeLong, Khaled A. Aamer, Sarvesh K. Agrawal, Surita R. Bhatia, Gregory N. Tew
Degradable Poly (ethylene oxide)-block-Polycaprolactone Worm Micelles, Yan Geng and Dennis E. Discher
4. Polymer Synthesis Functional Degradable Polymeric Materials Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), Nicolay Tsarevsky, Ke Min, Nazeem Jahed, Haifeng Gao and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Assembly of bioactive, heparin-derivatized polymer hydrogels for protein delivery, Nori Yamaguchi and Kristi Kiick
Thermo-sensitive Gels: Biodegradable Hydrogels from Enantiomeric Copolymers of Poly(lactide) and Poly(ethylene glycol) Tomoko Fujiwara and Yoshiharu Kimura
Aromatic-aliphatic Block Copolyesters Based on AA/BB Polymers and Polylactic Acid, Tim R. Cooper, Nathaniel Nix, and Robson F. Storey
Strategies in Aliphatic Polyester Synthesis for Biomaterial and Drug Delivery Applications, B. Parrish, T. Emrick
Degradable Polymers as Tools for Polyelectrolyte Complex Analysis, L. Leclercq, M. Boustta, and M. Vert
5. Characterization Biobased & Biodegradable Polymer Materials: Rationale, Drivers, and Technology Exemplars, R. Narayan
Chromatographic Analysis and Total Luminescence Intensity as Tools for Early Degradation Detection and Degradation State Estimation, Minna Hakkarainen, Lina Burman and Ann-Christine Albertsson
Characterization of Biodegradable Polymer Blends by Inverse Gas Chromatography Amylopectin and its Blends, Zeki Y. Al-Saigh
6. Degradation Mechanisms Dependence of in vitro Degradation of an Experimental Poly(glycolide-co-L-lactide) Multifilament on Pre-loading and Temperature, Meng Deng, Jack J. Zhou, Gavin G. Chen and Daniel Burkley
Organization and Expression of the Genes Involved in the Metabolism of Polyethylene Glycol and Polyvinyl Alcohol, F. Kawai, A. Tani, K. Kimbara
Factors Controlling the Rate of Photodegradation in Polymers, Bevin C. Daglen and David R. Tyler
Biodegradable Polymers: Are Sources and Structures Important?, Graham Swift and Radu Baciu