Youssef Habibi & Lucian A. Lucia 
Polysaccharide Building Blocks [PDF ebook] 
A Sustainable Approach to the Development of Renewable Biomaterials

Foreword vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
1 Recent Advances in Cellulose Chemistry 1
Thomas Heinze and Katrin Petzold-Welcke
2 Cellulosic Aerogels 51
Falk Liebner, Emmerich Haimer, Antje Potthast, and Thomas
Rosenau
3 Nanocelluloses: Emerging Building Blocks for Renewable
Materials 105
Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia
4 Interactions of Chitosan with Metals for Water Purification
127
Mohammed Rhazi, Abdelouhad Tolaimate, and Youssef Habibi
5 Recent Developments in Chitin and Chitosan Bio-Based Materials
Used for Food Preservation 143
Véronique Coma
6 Chitin and Chitosan as Biomaterial Building Blocks 177
JoséF. Louvier-Hernández and Ram B. Gupta
7 Chitosan Derivatives for Bioadhesive/Hemostatic Applications:
Chemical and Biological Aspects 199
Mai Yamazaki and Samuel M. Hudson
8 Chitin Nanofibers as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials
227
Youssef Habibi and Lucian A. Lucia
9 Electrical Conductivity and Polysaccharides 247
Axel Rußler and Thomas Rosenau
10 Polysaccharide-Based Porous Materials 271
Peter S. Shuttleworth, Avtar Matharu, and James H. Clark
11 Starch-Based Bionanocomposites: Processing and Properties
287
Visakh P. M., Aji P. Mathew, Kristiina Oksman, and Sabu
Thomas
12 Starch-Based Sustainable Materials 307
Luc Avérous
13 The Potential of Xylans as Biomaterial Resources 331
Anna Ebringerova
14 Micro- and Nanoparticles from Hemicelluloses 367
Emmerich Haimer, Falk Liebner, Antje Potthast, and Thomas
Rosenau
15 Nonxylan Hemicelluloses as a Source of Renewable Materials
387
David Plackett and Natanya Hansen
Index 409

YOUSSEF HABIBI, Ph D, is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Forest Bio-materials at North Carolina State University. His
research investigates biocomposites and biomaterials engineering;
cellulose nanocrystals self-assembly; natural fibers; reinforced
polymer composites and nanocomposites; the isolation, analysis,
treatment, and chemical modification and utilization of biomass
components; and surface modification of natural fibers and their
nanocrystals.
LUCIAN A. LUCIA, Ph D, is Associate Professor in the Department
of Forest Biomaterials at North Carolina State University. His
recent work focuses on the chemistry of wood pulping processes,
with an emphasis on hydrosulfide chemistry. Dr. Lucia cofounded and
coedits Bio Resources, dedicated to advanced applications of
lignocellulosics.