Biopolymers and Biotech Admixtures for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials

Fernando Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC, University of Minho. He holds the title of Counsellor (Top 0.5%) from the Portuguese Engineers Association and has been consistently recognized as a Scopus Highly Cited Scientist in the global rankings by Stanford University. With over 300 publications to his name, he has carried out in-depth peer reviews of more than one thousand scientific papers and assessed nearly one hundred research grant proposals across 15 countries. He serves on the editorial boards of nine international journals and has been involved in editorial decisions for several hundred manuscripts. In addition, he has edited 33 international books, many of which are available in the libraries of prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He has authored 200 papers, patents, book chapters and 8 monographs. His textbook “Environmental Microbiology for Engineers”, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015) editions, has been adopted for graduate and post-graduate courses in many universities. His research experience includes the supervision and participation in numerous projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules, microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, bioremediation of soil, and microbiological monitoring of water quality. Niranjan Karak is Professor of Polymer Science and Technology and Head of the Chemical Sciences Department at Tezpur University, India. He has published over 87 research papers, two books and two chapters in two edited books, and also regularly acts as a reviewer for many international polymer journals. Henk Jonkers is a leading researcher and expert on self-healing bio-concrete and the sustainability Chair Leader of the Materials and Environment section in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

"The book provides basic concepts, production aspects and environmental impact assessment on the use of biopolymers and biotech admixtures ... It provides new knowledge, is well structured, really up-to-date, and has an enormous number of references." --Professor Lech Czarnecki, Building Research Institute, Poland (from the foreword)

• 1. Introduction to biopolymers and biotech admixtures for eco-efficient construction materialsSection One. Production of biopolymers for eco-efficient construction materials2. Basic concepts on biopolymers and biotechnological admixtures for eco-efficient construction materials3. Biotechnological production of biopolymers and admixtures for eco-efficient construction materials4. Life cycle assessment of biopolymersSection Two. Biopolymers and biotech admixtures in cement and mortars5. Biotech admixtures for enhancing portland cement hydration6. Black liquor waste as a cement admixture or cement and concrete admixtures7. High-performance superplasticizer based on chitosan8. Microorganism-based bioplasticizer for cementitious materials9. Fly ash-based geopolymer with kappa-carrageenan biopolymerSection Three. Biopolymers and biotech admixtures in concrete10. Biopolymers with superplasticizer properties for concrete11. Biopolymers with viscosity-enhancing properties for concrete12. Biotech solutions for concrete repair with enhanced durabilitySection Four. Other biopolymer applications13. Rigid biofoam composites as eco-efficient construction materials14. Biopolymers for wood preservation15. Biopolymers for paints and surface coatings16. Bio-based adhesives17. Biopolymers as biofilters and biobarriers18. Biopolymers for superhydrophobic photocatalytic coatings