Cellulosics: Materials for Selective Separations and Other Technologies

Cellulose and its derivatives are of enormous industrial importance and are widely and cheaply available for a variety of applications. The trend towards high-tech, value-added applications is represented in this book by a coverage of purification and separation processes using cellulose-based materials for filtration, separation, chromatography and biosensing.
This unique book is written by an international panel of specialists drawn from major industries, and offers a truly contemporary coverage including the molecular and materials science aspects.
Postgraduate students, researchers and professional chemists in biotechnology, microbiology, pharmacology, chemical engineering, materials science. Industrial users in paper, plastics and polymers.