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Biomedical Research
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Joint Event on
EMERGING MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Annual Congress on
Global Congress on
Biomed Res 2018, Volume 29 | DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C4-011
STATE-OF-THE-BIO BASED
PLASTICS INDUSTRY: OVERVIEW
2018
Yash P Khanna
Innoplast Solutions Inc., USA
W
hile most major corporations around the world have
escalated their efforts in recent years on improving the
environmental impact and sustainability via several routes,
some break-through concepts have only lately emerged. For
example, converting land and forest wastes into chemicals;
the latter besides numerous uses serve as building-blocks
for plastics and reducing-capturing-converting the harmful
greenhouse gases (CO
2
and CH
4
) into chemicals. These
revolutionary concepts are expected to take environment/
sustainability efforts to new heights. This presentation will
begin with a review of the historic emergence of the bio-based
plastics industry starting with an era of waste management
via biodegradation followed by a period of very high petroleum
prices and proliferation of technology pipeline to develop
traditional and new durable polymers, and now again through
times of lower petroleum pricing/shale gas revolution. Despite
turbulent events, reasons for steady-growth of this industry
forecasted to be 34Blbs/year by 2020, will be highlighted.
Emphasis of the presentation will be on how the field of
polymers and chemicals is being rejuvenated via non-fossil
raw-materials that are: biobased-sustainable or air-land-
ocean pollutants; thereby leading to preservation of petroleum
resources, reduction of air-land-ocean pollution, and utilization
of free/undesirable raw materials.
BIO-NANOTECHNOLOGY INDIAN
CONTEXT
Chinta Sanjay
GITAM University, India
N
anotechnology has been heralded as a revolutionary
technology bymany scholarsworldwide. Being an enabling
technology, it has the potential to open new vistas in the field
of R&D in various multiple disciplines and have wide domain
of sectoral applications, ranging from healthcare/medicines,
electronics, textiles, agriculture, construction, water treatment,
and food processing to cosmetics. Much of these applications
are very much pertinent for a developing country like India. In
this context, the government has been playing a pioneering role
in fostering and promoting nanotechnology R&D in India since
early 2000s. India is among the top 12 biotech destinations in
the world and ranks third in the Asia Pacific. The development
of nanotechnology in India has been mainly conceived and
continued the premise that this new and emerging technology
has huge potential to help the country address societal
challenges such as provision of drinking water, healthcare,
etc., and simultaneously achieve economic gains through
growth in the nanotech-based industrial sector. Biotechnology
and nanotechnology are among five key technologies that
have the maximum potential to stimulate growth in Indian
manufacturing and also serve national security priorities. Bio-
nanotechnology is the key functional technology of the 21st
century. It is a fusion of biology and nanotechnology based
on the principles and chemical pathways of living organisms
and refers to the functional applications of biomolecules in
nanotechnology. It encompasses the study, creation, and
illumination of the connections between structural molecular
biology, nutrition and nanotechnology, since the development
of techniques of nanotechnology might be guided by studying
the structure and function of the natural nano-molecules
found in living cells. Biology offers a window into the most
sophisticated collection of functional nanostructures that
exists.