Many modern surface coatings and adhesives are derived from fossil feedstocks. With fossil fuels becoming more polluting and expensive to extract as supplies dwindle, industry is turning increasingly to nature, mimicking natural solutions using renewable raw materials and employing new technologies.

Highlighting sustainable technologies and applications of renewable raw materials within the framework of green and sustainable chemistry, circular economy and resource efficiency, this book provides a cradle-to-cradle perspective. From potential feedstocks to recycling/reuse opportunities and the de-manufacture of adhesives and solvents, green chemistry principles are applied to all aspects of surface coating, printing, adhesive and sealant manufacture.

This book is ideal for students, researchers and industrialists working in green sustainable chemistry, industrial coatings, adhesives, inks and printing technologies.

Green Chemistry Principles and Global Drivers for Sustainability - An Introduction; Green Solubility for Coatings and Adhesives; Diversified Biological Adhesives and Their Differences with Synthetic Polymers; Bioinspired Attachment Systems for Adhesive Tapes in Green Tribology Applications; Lotus Effect-based Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Candle Soot as a Promising Class of Nanoparticles for Self-cleaning and Oil-Water Separation Applications; Adhesives for Medical Applications; White Biotechnology for Polymer Building Blocks: Strategies for Enhanced Production of Bio-based 1,3-Propanediol and Its Applications; Biosilicate Binders; Adhesives Derived From Biomass Waste Streams; Soy Protein Based Bio-adhesives; Natural Oil Polyols; Bio-based Switchable Adhesives for Carpet Tiles; Debondable Adhesive Systems; Printing Inks From Renewable Resources; Green Chemistry for Automotive Coatings: Sustainable Applications; Dry Powder Coating of Pharmaceutical Solid Dosages