This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures and properties for different industrial applications to support the ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable commercial products. It provides comparative discussions on the properties of eco-friendly resins with other polymer composites. It is a useful reference on bio-based eco-friendly polymer resins, wood-based composites, natural fibers and biomass materials for the polymer scientists, engineers and material scientists.

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Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since June 2013. He has more than 16 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer composites, advance materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for packaging applications, nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends. So far, he has published 38 books, 65 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 20132018. He also obtained 2 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 50 and 11049 and in Google scholar, H-index and citation are 58 and 15407; H-index = 49 (Web of Science). He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book Series from Springer-Nature, and also Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials, Springer-Nature. Beside that he is also member of International Advisory Board of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. He worked as guest editor of special issues of SN Applied Science, Current Organic Synthesis and Current Analytical Chemistry, International Journal of Polymer Science, IOP Conference Proceeding. He also in Editorial Board Member of Journal of Polymers and The Environment, Journal of Plastics Technology, Applied Science and Engineering Progress Journal, Journal of Asian Science, Technology and Innovation and the Recent Innovations in Chemical Engineering. He is life member of Asian Polymer Association, and Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology. He is also member of Society of Plastics Engineers, American Chemical Society, Athens Institute for Education and Research, and International Association of Advanced Materials. Besides that, he is also reviewer of several high-impact international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc. Presently, he is supervising 12 Ph.D. students (4 Ph.D. as Chairman, and 8 Ph.D. as Member) and 7 Master's students (1 Master as Chairman, and 6 Master as Member) in the fields of hybrid composites, green composites, nanocomposites, natural fiber-reinforced composites, nanocellulose, etc. 24 Ph.D. and 12 Master's students graduated under his supervision in 20142020. He has several research grants at university, national, and international levels on polymer composites of around 3 million Malaysian ringgits (USD 700,000). He also delivered plenary and invited talks in international conferences related to composites in India, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and China. Besides that, he is also a member of technical committees of several national and international conferences on composites and material science. Recently Dr. Mohammad Jawaid received Excellent Academic Award in Category of International Grant-Universiti Putra Malaysia-2018 and also Excellent Academic Staff Award in industry High Impact Network (ICAN 2019) Award. Beside that Gold Medal-Community and Industry Network (JINM Showcase) at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He also Received Publons Peer Review Awards 2017, and 2018 (Materials Science), Certified Sentinel of science Award Receipient-2016 (Materials Science) and 2019 (Materials Science and Cross field). He is also Winner of Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research and Innovation Bridges Competition 2015.

Tanveer Ahmed Khan is currently Postdoctoral Researcher in the Laboratory of Adhesion & Bio-Composites, Program in Environmental Materials Science, Seoul National University. He completed his Ph.D. in October 2015 in the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Pahang and has secured many national and international awards at international conferences and scientific exhibitions. His research interests include synthesis of carbon fibers, carbon nanomaterials, bio-adhesives, wood composites, wood-plastic composites, natural fiber composites, biomass, nano-cellulose, lignin chemistry, polymer synthetic chemistry, polymer nano-composites, advance materials, superabsorbent composites, polymer materials and engineering. He has published 12 papers in the reputed journals, 2 book chapters and 14 conference proceedings.

Mohammed Nasir is Assistant Professor in the Forest Products division in the College of Forestry at Banda University of A...

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction of eco-friendly adhesives.- Chapter 2: Synthesis process of various type of bio adhesives.- Chapter 3: Production and characterization of wood composite boards prepared from enzyme treated fibers and lignin based bio-adhesives.- Chapter 4: Eco-friendly tannin based wood adhesive for wood composites application.- Chapter 5: Starch based polymeric adhesive: Present trends of preparations and applications in wood and wood based composites.- Chapter 6: Natural rubber (NR) latex based adhesives.- Chapter 7: Manufacturing and Characterization of Composite Fiber boards with an environmental friendly lignin based resin.- Chapter 8: Use of innovative High density polyethylene (HDPE) environmentally friendly adhesives for wood composites.- Chapter 9: Development of hydrolyzed protein-based adhesives for wood composites.- Chapter 10: Eco-friendly wood fibre composites with high bonding strength and water resistance.- Chapter 11: Physical, mechanical and thermal properties of natural fibre based bio adhesive composites.- Chapter 12: Effect of treatments on natural fibre based bio adhesive composites.- Chapter 13: Effect of fire retardant on natural fibre based bio adhesive composites.- Chapter 14: Physical, mechanical and thermal properties of wood-based bio adhesive composites.- Chapter 15: Effect of fire-retardant treatment on wood-based bio adhesive composites.- Chapter 16: Current and future challenges of bio-based adhesives for wood composite industries.- Chapter 17: Utilization of renewable biomass and waste materials for production of environmental-friendly, bio-based composites.