**Meet the editor**

Dr Mohammad Luqman is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia. He teaches Polymer Science and Engineering courses. He served as an Assistant Manager in Samsung Cheil Industries, South Korea, and worked on the development of heat resistant polymers, organic glass, and block copolymers as impact modifiers

and compatibilizers for engineering polymers. He served as a post-doctoral fellow at Artificial Muscle Research Center, Konkuk University, Korea. He earned his PhD in the field of Ionomers from Chosun University, Korea. Dr Luqman studied extensively the effects of various types of additives/plasticizers on the morphology and dynamic mechanical properties of ionomers. Dr Luqman is acting as a Regional (Middle East) Editor to an International Journal "Chemical and Environmental Research" and a Section Editor to "Journal of Industrial Research & Technology".

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Flexidone™ – A New Class of Innovative PVC Plasticizers 1** 

**A New Source of Collagen Bio-Plasticizer? 19** 

Chapter 4 **Pharmaceutical Applications of Plasticized Polymers 69** 

Chapter 5 **Plasticizers in Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems 91**  Sevgi Güngör, M. Sedef Erdal and Yıldız Özsoy

**Membrane Selective Electrodes 113** 

Chapter 7 **Use of Plasticizers for Electrochemical Sensors 125** 

Chapter 8 **The Effect of Concentration and Type of Plasticizer** 

**Butyrate Organic-Inorganic Hybrids 141** 

**Poly(vinyl chloride) – Lithium Tetraborate** 

Ramesh T. Subramaniam, Liew Chiam-Wen,

**on the Mechanical Properties of Cellulose Acetate** 

**Electrolyte Plasticized by Propylene Carbonate 165** 

Josafat Marina Ezquerra-Brauer, Mario Hiram Uriarte-Montoya, Joe Luis Arias-Moscoso and Maribel Plascencia-Jatomea

Martin Bonnet and Hasan Kaytan

Chapter 3 **Pharmaceutically Used Plasticizers 45**  Eva Snejdrova and Milan Dittrich

Eva Snejdrova and Milan Dittrich

Cristina Mihali and Nora Vaum

Chapter 9 **Characterization of High Molecular Weight** 

Lau Pui Yee and Ezra Morris

Patrycja Wojciechowska

Chapter 6 **Plasticizers and Their Role in** 

Mohsen M. Zareh

Chapter 2 **By-Products From Jumbo Squid (***Dosidicus gigas***):** 
