continued technical supports received from Mr. David Collier, Mr. Graeme Watson,
and Mr. Andreas Viereckl at Mechanical Engineering laboratories, Ms. Elaine
Miller and Ms. Veronica Avery at John de Laeter Centre, as well as Dr. Thomas
Becker at Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University. In particular, the
success of this published book cannot be achieved without the editorial team at
Springer Nature including Loyola D’Silva, Kavitha Palanisamy and N. S. Pandian.
We welcome valuable comments and feedbacks from other researchers, scientists and materials engineers to improve the overall quality of this book. We also
wish that it can provide an essential guidance to sustainable bionanocomposite
systems from material processing, experimental characterisation to modelling work
in a holistic manner.
Perth, Australia
Mohanad Mousa
Yu Dong
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