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EDITORIAL

Editorial

by Dr. Mirta Aranguren.Counted among the more than hundred partici­pants from Latin America, North America, Europe was an important percentage of young researchers, doctoral students. The sessions included recent scien­tific advances in the topics covered, as well as a final round table with the participation of innovators from the academic, industrial sectors. Contributions from lecture, oral, poster presentations have been selected for this special issue of the Journal of Renewable Materials science, technology of biobased polymers, composites.The first two articles are devoted to the study of biopolymers. The first one presents an analy­sis, modeling of the structure of biological liquid crystalline structures as nature plywood analogues.

INTEMA, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata marangur@fi.mdp.edu.ar
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea arantxa.eceiza@ehu.es

Journal of Renewable Materials 2016, 4(4), 239-239. https://doi.org/10.7569/JRM.2016.634125

Abstract

There is an increasing awareness among the general public of the importance of the intelligent use of earth’s biological resources for the production of chemicals, materials and precursors, resulting in an economy that is turning towards considering the valuable contributions offered by these resources. To face the present challenges of reducing the use of nonrenewable resources and the negative impact of polymer pollution on the environment, the world’s scientists are making their contribution by unraveling biological structures and studying and developing new materials and applications from biomass resources.

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