The chemistry and processing of wood and plant fibrous materials / Editors, John F. Kennedy, Glyn O. Phillips and Peter A Williams

Part 1: The fibre and non fibre resources
1. Forestry-sustainable production and processing
2. Changing patterns of global wood and fibre supplies
3. Blackcurrant stems-An agri-waste with potential as a dilutent to existing tree based fibre sources
4. Phenolic acid acid dimers in barley straw cell walls
etc...

Part 2: Pulping
7. Advances in steam explosion pulping (SEP)
8. Kinetics and mechanism of wheat straw pulping
9. Ethanol pulping pretreated non-wood fibre materials
etc...

Part 3: Physical and chemical processing of fibre and fibrous products
16. Property enhancement of plant fibres for industrial use
17. Physicochemical aspects of fibre processing
18. The effect of acetic anhydride treatments on the mechanical properties, hydrophobicity and dimensional stability of Russian Fifths and Scandinavian pine
etc...

Part 4: Physical and chemical processing of fibre and non fibrous products
27. Polymaric materials derived from biomass
28. High performance and highly functional polymeric materials from plant components
29. Preparation and physical properties of biodegradable polyurethanes derived from the lignin-polyster-polyol system
etc...

Part 5: Applications of cellulose, cellulose derivatives, lignin and cellulose-related enzymes
35. The alkaline degredation of cellulose relating to the long term storage of radionuclides in cement
36. The use of cellulose and cellulose derivatives in immobilised systems for removal of colour from textile effluents
37. New polymer electrolytes based on modified polysaccharides
etc...

Includes Bibliographic references
Index : p. 419 - 423