Poly(lactic acid)

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

Talia Pincus, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Jed Randall, NatureWorks LLC, Minnetonka, Minnesota

Suprakas Sinha Ray, Centre for Nanostructures and Advanced Materials, DSI‐CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa; Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nanjaporn Roungpaisan, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathumthani, Thailand

Sangeeta Sahu, Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Tehsil Dadri, India

Mohini Sain, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wataru Sakai, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering Matsugasaki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo‐ku, Kyoto, Japan

Hayati Samsudin, Food Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Susan E. M. Selke, School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Olav Sliekersl, PURAC, Gorinchem, The Netherlands

Anders Södergård, Laboratory of Polymer Technology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Mirka Ltd, Jepua, Finland

Uruchaya Sonchaeng, School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; Department of Packaging and Materials Technology, Faculty of Agro‐Industry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Herlinda Soto‐Valdez, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Hermosillo, Sonora, México

Mikael Stolt, Laboratory of Polymer Technology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Bayer Oy, Turku, Finland

Shuko Suzuki, The Queensland Eye Institute, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Wataru Takarada, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Midori Takasaki, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan

Kohji Tashiro, Department of Future Industry‐oriented Basic Science and Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Hideto Tsuji, Department of Applied Chemistry and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

Naoto Tsutsumi, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan