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.
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Table of Contents
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