Properties and application of aliphatic polyester products (Masatsugi Mochizuki) Aliphatic polyesters (Ann--Christine Albertson and Indra K. Varma) Biodegradable polyester Biopol(R) (Jawed Asrar and Kenneth J. Gruys) Applications of PHAs in medicine and pharmacy (Simon F. Williams and David P. Martin) Polylactides (Hideto Tsuji) Polyglycolide and copolyesters with lactide (Michael Vert) Polyanhydrides (Neeraj Kumar, et al.) Polylactides NatureworksTM PLA (Patrick Gruber and Michael O'Brien) Polylactic acid LACEA (Nobuyuki Kawashima, et al.) Aliphatic polyesters Bionolle (Ryoji Ishioka, et al.) Biodegradable aliphatic--aromatic polyesters Ecoflex(R) (Motonori Yamamoto, et al.) Polyesteramides (Ralf Timmermann) Chemical modification of natural and synthetic polyesters (Emo Chiellini, et al.) Production of chiral and other valuable compounds from microbial polyesters (Sang Yup Lee, et al.) Index