Green Polymer Chemistry
New Products, Processes, and Applications Volume 3
Edited by H. N. Cheng, Richard A. Gross, and Patrick B. Smith
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Edited by H. N. Cheng, Research Chemist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Edited by Richard A. Gross, Professor and Constellation Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Edited by Patrick B. Smith, Research Scientist, Michigan Molecular Institute
H. N. Cheng (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is currently a research chemist at Southern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans, where he works on projects involving improved utilization of commodity agricultural materials, green chemistry, and polymer reactions. Prior to 2009 he worked for Hercules Incorporated, where he was involved at various times with new product development, team and project leadership, new business evaluation, pioneering research, and supervision of analytical research. Over the years, his research interests have included green polymer chemistry, agro-based materials, biocatalysis, pulp and paper chemistry, functional foods, polymer characterization, and NMR spectroscopy. He was elected an ACS Fellow (2009), a POLY Fellow (2010), and an AGFD Fellow (2018). He received the ACS Volunteer Service Award (2016), Tillmans-Skolnick Award for Outstanding Service from the ACS Delaware Section (2006), and Distinguished Service (2005) and
Special Service (2015) Awards from ACS Polymer Division. He has authored or co-authored over 250 papers, 26 patent publications, co-edited 20 books, and organized or co-organized 33 symposia at national ACS meetings since 2003. Richard A. Gross (Ph.D., Polytechnic University) holds Constellation Chaired Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is also a member of RPI's Departments of Chemistry and Biology as well as Biomedical Engineering. Previously he was on the faculty of University of Massachusetts (Lowell) (1988?1998) and occupied the Herman F. Mark Chair Professorship at Polytechnic University (1998-2013). His research is focused on developing biocatalytic routes to bio-based materials, combining chemical methods with cell-free and whole-cell biocatalytic systems to produce a large number of new biobased materials. He has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals with approximately 26,000 citations, has edited 7 books, and has been granted or filed 26 patents.
He has received numerous awards, including Presidential Green Chemistry Award in the academic category (2003), induction into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2007), Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor (2010), POLY Fellow (2015), Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bio-Environmental Polymer Society (2017), and the 2018 recipient of the Affordable Green Chemistry Award from the ACS. He founded SyntheZyme, LLC (where he serves as Chief Technology Officer) in 2009 to commercialize technologies developed in his laboratory. Patrick B. Smith (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Adjunct Professor at both Michigan State University and Central Michigan University. He joined the Dow Chemical Company in 1974, rising to the rank of Fellow prior to his retirement in 2007. At Dow, he served with Cargill Dow Polymers, which launched the IngeoTM PLA line of products. After his retirement from Dow, he consulted with Archer Daniels Midland, acting as ADM's R&D leader for their
joint venture with Metabolix, which commercialized MirelTM PHA biopolymers. He also supported ADM's bio-based propylene glycol product launch. He received the Sigma Xi Midland Chapter Award in 1987 and the ACS Midland Section Award for Outstanding Achievement and Promotion of the Chemical Sciences in 1998. He was named an ACS Fellow in 2013 and received the ACS E. Ann Nalley Award in 2014. He is also the recipient of Dow Analytical Science's V.A. Stenger Award in 1984 and the Dow Michigan R&D Scientists' Award in 1994. He has co-authored nearly 500 Dow technical reports, 90 publications, and 3 patents.
Contributors:
H. N. Cheng
Richard A. Gross
Patrick B. Smith
Seiichi Tada
Hideyuki Miyatake
Takanori Uzawa
Yoshihiro Ito
Laura R. Jarboe
Jeffery B. Klauda
Yingxi Chen
Kirsten M. Davis
Miguel C. Santoscoy
Camila Utsunomia
Seiichi Taguchi
Takeshi Kawabata
Masayuki Oda
Nobutaka Numoto
Fusako Kawai
Qian Liu
Cerasela Zoica Dinu
Kousuke Tsuchiya
Keiji Numata
Kai Chi
Jeffrey M. Catchmark
Yusuke Matsumoto
Daisuke Ishii
Tadahisa Iwata
Atanu Biswas
Sanghoon Kim
Megan Buttrum
Roselayne F. Furtado
Carlucio R. Alves
H. N. Cheng
Yue Cao
Kathryn E. Uhrich
Karla A. Barrera-Rivera
Antonio Martínez-Richa
Tracy Zhang
Bob A. Howell
Steven J. Martin
Brandon Zhu
Daniel Zhang
Patrick B. Smith
Sumant Dwivedi
Tatsuo Kaneko
Louis Hollande
Florent Allais
Liang Yue
Joseph F. Stanzione III
Elyse A. Baroncini
Alexander W. Bassett
Silvio Curia
Christopher N. Kuncho
Wenhao Liu
Johannes Möller
Julia Kammleiter,
Julia Stehle
Akshay Kokil
Emmanuelle Reynaud
Daniel F. Schmidt
Léa Bonnot
Christophe Len
Etienne Grau
Henri Cramail
Manuel Hartweg
C. Remzi Becer
Richard D. Ashby
Daniel K. Y. Solaiman
Sanaz Abdolmohammadi
Nacú Hernández
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier
Eric W. Cochran
Andrew J. Guenthner
Benjamin G. Harvey
Matthew C. Davis
Xiaobo Dong
Halle D. Shannon
Isabel C. Escobar
Bob A. Howell
Yoseph G. Daniel
Eric A. Ostrander
