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	Alternatively Fuelled Vehicles		Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen – An Exergy Approach
	Electromagnetic Theory		Instantaneous Power Theory and Applications to Power Conditioning

	Screening of Humans for Security Purposes Using Ionizing Radiation Scanning Systems		Cesium-137 in the Environment – Radioecology and Approaches to Assessment and Management
	Management of Radionuclide Therapy Patients		Information Needed to Make Radiation Protection Recommendations for Space Missions beyond Low-Earth Orbit

	Polymer Reference Book		Adhesion Aspects of Thin Films, Volume 3
	Handbook of Material Weathering (4th Edition)		Handbook of Thermoplastic Elastomers

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Problem: Millions of tons of plastic packaging and other plastic waste are hauled to over-flowing landfills every year around the world and will remain there for a very long time.  The plastics industry is continuously searching for solutions to this problem by implementing “green” technologies, including the development of biodegrad-able plastics.

Knovel recently helped one engineer who was looking into utilizing soybeans in the manufacture of biodegradable plastics.

The idea came after a very simple search on Knovel for ’soybean oil and plastics’. The search produced 34 titles with a wealth of information on the use of soybean oil in the plastics and coatings industry. Click the image below to see the results.

In Modern Plastics Handbook, the engineer found that biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) can be modified with epoxidized soybean oil to increase melt elasticity and also learned that epoxidized soybean oil can be used as a media to introduce a bactericide into a plastic.

Solution: The engineer found that soybean oil not only serves as a good biodegradable alternative to standard plastics and can increase the processing properties of PLA, but it can also help to fight microbes in the products made from it!

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Sasha Gurke helped transcribe this story for K-News. He is Sr. Vice President and one of Knovel’s co-founders.Sasha is a trained Chemist and Process Engineer with years of industrial and lab experience.