Degradable polymers and materials: principles and practice

1. Introduction / Carmen Scholz and Kishan Khemani

2. Emulsan-alginate microspheres as a new vehicle for protein delivery / Guillermo R. Castro, Emilia Bora, Bruce Panilaitis and David L. Kaplan

3. Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for short chain length-medium chain length polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis / Christopher T. Nomura and Yoshiharu Doi

4. Physical properties, structure analysis, and enzymatic degradation of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyvalerate] films and fibers / Tadahisa Iwata, Toshihisa Tanaka, Norihito Adachi, Masashi Hasegawa, Shinya Teramachi and Yoshiharu Doi

5. Bacterial poly([beta]-hydroxybutyrate) : hydrophilized and colored / K. Busse, H. Budde, C. Scholz and S. Kressler

6. Modifications of soybean oil using novel ozone-based chemistry / Daniel Graiver, Phuong Tran, Laura Patrick, Ken Farminer and Ramani Narayan

7. Poly(lactic acids) : a brief review / J. R. Dorgan, B. Braun, J. R. Wegner and D. M. Knauss

8. Biocatalytic synthesis of ricinoleic acid star polymers : "green" manufacturing of potentially valuable lubricant additives and drug delivery materials / Douglas G. Hayes

9. Multifunctional polyester-based materials with controlled degradability / Daniel Grande, Estelle Renard, Valerie Langlois, Geraldine Rohman, Laurianne Timbart and Philippe Guerin

10. Poly(lactide)-poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(lactide) triblock copolymers : synthesis and thermal properties / Naomi Sanabria-DeLong, Khaled A. Aamer, Sarvesh K. Agrawal, Surita R. Bhatia and Gregory N. Tew

11. Degradable poly(ethylene oxide)-block-polycaprolactone worm micelles / Yah Geng and Dermis E. Discher

12. Functional degradable polymeric materials prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization / Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Ke Min, Nazeem M. Jahed, Haifeng Gao and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

13. Assembly of bioactive, heparin-derivatized polymer hydrogels for protein delivery / Nori Yamaguchi and Kristi L. Kiick

14. Thermo-sensitive gels : biodegradable hydrogels from enantiomeric copolymers of poly(lactide) and poly(ethylene glycol) / Tomoko Fujiwara and Yoshiharu Kimura

15. Aromatic-aliphatic block copolyesters based on AA/BB polymers and poly(lactic acid) / Tim R. Cooper, Nathaniel Nix and Robson F. Storey

16. Strategies in aliphatic polyester synthesis for biomaterial and drug delivery applications / Bryan Parrish and Todd Emrick

17. Degradable polymers as tools for polyelectrolyte complex analysis / L. Leclercq, M. Boustta and M. Vert

18. Biobased and biodegradable polymer materials : rationale, drivers, and technology exemplars / Ramani Narayan

19. Chromatographic analysis and total luminescence intensity as tools for early degradation detection and degradation state estimation / Minna Hakkarainen, Lina Burman and Ann-Christine Albertsson

20. Characterization of biodegradable polymer blends by inverse gas chromatography : amylopectin and its blends / Zeki Y. Al-Saigh

21. Dependence of in vitro degradation of an experimental poly(glycolide-co-L-lactide) multifilament on preloading and temperature / Meng Deng, Jack J. Zhou, Gavin G. Chen and Daniel Burkley

22. Organization and expression of the genes involved in the metabolism of poly(ethylene glycol) and poly(vinyl alcohol) / Fusako Kawai, Akio Tani and Kazuhide Kimbara

23. Factors controlling the rate of photodegradation in polymers / Bevin C. Daglen and David R. Tyler

24. Biodegradable polymers : are sources and structures important / Graham Swift and Radu Baciu.