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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Hideki Abe, Bioplastic Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama, Japan
Ashwini K. Agrawal, Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
Ann‐Christine Albertsson, Department of Fiber and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Rafael Auras, School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Sanchita Bandyopadhyay‐Ghosh, Engineered Biomedical Materials Research and Innovation Centre (EnBioMatRIC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Anibal Bher, School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; Materials Institute of Misiones (IMAM), CONICET‐UNaM, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
Edgar Castro‐Aguirre, The Kraft Heinz Company, Glenview, Illinois
Gian Domenico Cella, Novamont SpA, Novara, Italy
Kevin Cink, Boston Scientific, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sukeewan Detyothin, Department of Agro‐Industry, Faculty of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
John R. Dorgan, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Luca Fambri, Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies and BIOtech Research Center, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Anna Finne‐Wistrand, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Subrata Bandhu Ghosh, Engineered Biomedical Materials Research and Innovation Centre (EnBioMatRIC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Wim Groot, Corbion, The Randstad, Netherlands
Tanmay Gupta, Engineered Biomedical Materials Research and Innovation Centre (EnBioMatRIC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Akira Hiraishi, Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan
Shakira R. Hobbs, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Yoshito Ikada, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Bioenvironmental Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
Fabiola Iñiguez‐Franco, Niagara Bottling, LLC, Diamond Bar, California
Saara Inkinen, Laboratory of Polymer Technology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Nordic Catalyst, Vienna, Austria
Tadahisa Iwata, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Waree Jaruwattanayon, Department of Agro‐Industry, Faculty of Agriculture Natural Resources and Environment, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
Ajay Kathuria, Industrial Technology and Packaging, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
Vimal Katiyar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
Yoshihiro Kikkawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Takeshi Kikutani, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Yoshiharu Kimura, Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Kamlesh Kumar, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh, India
Vijay Shankar Kumawat, Engineered Biomedical Materials Research and Innovation Centre (EnBioMatRIC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India
Amy E. Landis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Loong‐Tak Lim, Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Carl T. Lira, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Bimlesh Lochab, Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India
Isabel M. Marrucho, Centro de Quimica Estrutural and Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Ken'ichiro Matsumoto, Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Laurent M. Matuana, School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Claudio Migliaresi, Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies and BIOtech Research Center, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Masatsugu Mochizuki, Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Neha Mulchandani, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Dennis Newby, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Haruo Nishida, Plas‐N, Kitakyushu, Japan
Mohammadreza Nofar, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak/Istanbul, Turkey
Lars Peereboom, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Elizabeth Peralta, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. Hermosillo, Sonora, México
Gabriele Perego, Vanadis Srl, Colleretto Giacosa, Italy
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