Bio-based polyesters: Recent progress and future prospects

Q Zhang, M Song, Y Xu, W Wang, Z Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymer materials is among
the most pressing contemporary challenges for polymer science and engineering. Bio …

Sustainable cycloaliphatic polyurethanes: from synthesis to applications

A Mouren, L Avérous - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyurethanes (PUs) are a versatile and major polymer family, mainly produced via
polyaddition between polyols and polyisocyanates. A large variety of fossil-based building …

Recent advances in the synthesis of cyclic carbonates via CO2 cycloaddition to epoxides

A Rehman, F Saleem, F Javed, A Ikhlaq… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global concerns about high CO 2 levels and dwindling supplies of fossil resources are
increasing. The utilization of CO 2 and waste biomass as renewable resources for valuable …

From terpenes to sustainable and functional polymers

F Della Monica, AW Kleij - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Our dependence on fossil-fuel based raw materials and alarming plastics accumulation in
the environment has inspired many scientists to design and implement more sustainable …

From monomers to polymers from renewable resources: Recent advances

A Gandini, TM Lacerda - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Considering the state of affairs related to polymers and their applications, the plastic-
dependence of the modern society is evident and becomes now needless to mention …

Thiyl radicals in organic synthesis

F Denes, M Pichowicz, G Povie, P Renaud - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Thiyl radicals have been used by nature in a broad range of biochemical processes. For
instance, thiol residues play an important role in many enzymatic processes as illustrated by …

Thiol–ene “click” reactions and recent applications in polymer and materials synthesis: a first update

AB Lowe - Polymer Chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This contribution serves as an update to a previous review (Polym. Chem. 2010, 1, 17–36)
and highlights recent applications of thiol–ene 'click'chemistry as an efficient tool for both …

High performance, fully bio‐based, and optically transparent wood biocomposites

C Montanari, Y Ogawa, P Olsén… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The sustainable development of engineering biocomposites has been limited due to a lack
of bio‐based monomers combining favorable processing with high performance. Here, the …

Long-chain aliphatic polymers to bridge the gap between semicrystalline polyolefins and traditional polycondensates

F Stempfle, P Ortmann, S Mecking - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Other than their established short-chain congeners, polycondensates based on long-chain
difunctional monomers are often dominated by the long methylene sequences of the repeat …

Progress in renewable polymers from natural terpenes, terpenoids, and rosin

PA Wilbon, F Chu, C Tang - Macromolecular rapid …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The development of sustainable renewable polymers from natural resources has
increasingly gained attention from scientists, engineers as well as the general public and …