Polyesters carrying polar main-chain ester linkages exhibit distinct material properties for
diverse applications and thus play an important role in today's plastics economy. It is …

The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymer materials is among
the most pressing contemporary challenges for polymer science and engineering. Bio …

This article reviews the advances made over the past five decades of research in develo**
effective chemocatalytic pathways to synthesize polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a prominent …

Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) has been considered as a good precursor, instead of
petroleum-derived terephthalate acid (TPA), for producing green polymers such as …

Growing environmental concerns associated with the accumulation of plastic waste in the
natural environment has incentivised considerable research into renewable alternatives …

Future plastic materials will be very different from those that are used today. The increasing
importance of sustainability promotes the development of bio-based and biodegradable …

Polyesters based on polyols have emerged as promising biomaterials for various
biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, drug delivery systems, and …

Approximately 99% of the plastics produced today are petroleum-based, and the packaging
industry alone consumes over 38% of these plastics. In this review, we argue that renewable …

Abstract Polymers based on 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid (2, 5-FDCA), consist a new class of
alipharomatic polyesters that can be prepared from monomers derived straight from …

The search for new materials that replace fossil fuel-based plastics has been focused on
biopolymers with similar physicochemical properties to fossil fuel-based plastics, such as …