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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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