TY - BOOK AU - Smitthipong,Wirasak AU - Chollakup,Rungsima AU - Nardin,Michel TI - Bio-based composites for high-performance materials: from strategy to industrial application SN - 9781482214482 PY - 2015///] CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis KW - Composite materials KW - Polymeric composites KW - Fibrous composites KW - Biomass chemicals 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 -