Advances in Sustainable Polymers

Dr. Vimal Katiyar is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute Technology Guwahati, India. He received Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His main area of research includes sustainable polymer development, its processing and their structure property relationship, rheological aspects, migration studies, toxicological effects, polymer degradation, polymer based nanomaterials, food packaging, clean and green energy technologies. Currently, he is a coordinator for two centers of excellence at IIT Guwahati including Centre of excellence for Sustainable Polymers funded by Department of Chemicals and petrochemicals, Govt. of India and the Centre of Excellence for Biofuels and Biocommodities funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Prof. Katiyar is dedicated in developing the cost-effective, bio-based and biodegradable plastic products and its related technologies usingvarious feedstock including bio-derived plastics and biopolymers. Currently he is engaged in establishing India’s first heat stable biodegradable polymer production pilot plant. He is also a co-inventor of 22 granted/filled patents. He had published more than 100 peer reviewed research articles in highly reputed journals and more than 200 conference papers and 30 book chapters. Under his able guidance,10 of his students have got their Ph.D. and placed across the reputed institutions in India and abroad. His research group has received multiple National and International innovation awards in the development of bio-based polymeric products, nano-biomaterials, and related technologies. Dr. Katiyar is currently working on more than fifteen projects in the area of sustainable biopolymers, agriculture, food processing and related technologies. He also had grant from Ministry of Food Processing industries, Govt. of India to work in the area of Food packaging, migration and its characteristics. He acted as a catalyst towards bringing the Joint Degree in Food Science & Technology program between IIT Guwahati and Gifu University.  Raghvendra Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. He has previously worked as a researcher in BITS Pilani (India), Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (Singapore) and University of Sydney (Australia). His research interests are based around understanding transport processes in chemical and biomedical applications, and he is current research is on multiphase flows, microfluidics and interfacial phenomena. He has authored 18 research publications in reputed journals.  Tabli Ghosh is a research scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating the health impacts of edible medicinal nano-coatings for food products.

• Part I: Sustainable Polymers for Biomedical Applications.- Chapter 1- Biomaterials for Biomedical Devices and Implants.- Chapter 2- Biocompatible Polymer based Nanofibres for Tissue Engineering Application.- Chapter 3- Biodegradable Polymer based Nanohybrids for Controlled Drug Delivery and Implant Applications.- Chapter 4- Biobased Nanohydrogels for Controlled Drug Delivery.- Chapter 5- Resorbable Polymers for Biomedical Applications.- Chapter 6- Carbohydrate Therapeutics Based on Polymer grafted Nanoparticles.- Chapter 6-Hydrogels for Wound Healing Applications Facilitated by Herbal Bioactive Agents.- Chapter 7: Polymeric Nanoparticles for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery.- Part II: Sustainable Polymers for Food Packaging Applications.- Chapter 8- Polysaccharide Based Films for Food Packaging and other Application.- Chapter 9- Biopolymer based Polylactic acid for food packaging applications.- Chapter 10- Bacterial Cellulose based Hydrogel Film for Sustainable Food Packaging.- Chapter 11- Biodegradable Polymer Based Blown Films for Food Packaging Application.- Part III: Sustainable Polymers for other emerging application.- Chapter 12- Advances in Biobased Polymer Membranes for CO2 Separation.- Chapter 13- Bio-based Polymers in stimuli responsive membranes.- Chapter 14- Microbial Fuel Cell: A synergistic Flow Approach for Energy Power Generation and Wastewater Treatment.- Chapter 15- Sustainable Polymer based Microfluidic Fuel Cells for Low Power Applications.- Chapter 16- Sustainable Polymeric Nanocomposites for Multifaceted Advanced Applications.- Chapter 17- Bioinspired interfaces for High performance/Advanced application.- Chapter 18- Biobased Polymeric Conductive Materials for Advanced Applications.- Chapter 19- Aerobic Composting of Bioplastics.