Plant oil renewable resources as green alternatives in polymer science

MAR Meier, JO Metzger, US Schubert - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
The utilization of plant oil renewable resources as raw materials for monomers and polymers
is discussed and reviewed. In an age of increasing oil prices, global warming and other …

Structure–properties relationship of fatty acid-based thermoplastics as synthetic polymer mimics

L Maisonneuve, T Lebarbé, E Grau, H Cramail - Polymer Chemistry, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays the use of vegetable oils as polymer precursors is the subject of growing interest
in the academic and industrial communities. Many synthetic pathways can be pursued from …

Sustainable thermoplastic elastomers derived from fatty acids

S Wang, S Vajjala Kesava, ED Gomez… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Vegetable oils are an attractive source for polymers due to their low cost, abundance,
annual renewability, and ease of functionalization. Stearyl and lauryl acrylate, derived from …

Atom transfer radical polymerization

S Harrisson, R Whitfield, A Anastasaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is a synthetic method that harnesses radical
polymerization to yield well-defined polymers of controlled architecture from a wide range of …

RAFT polymerization of fatty acid containing monomers: controlled synthesis of polymers from renewable resources

B Maiti, P De - RSC Advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of bio-renewable resources such as fatty acids into the polymer chain
allows tailoring the properties of products, for their widespread applications. A series of …

Atom‐Transfer Radical Copolymerization of Furfuryl Methacrylate (FMA) and Methyl Methacrylate (MMA): A Thermally‐Amendable Copolymer

AA Kavitha, NK Singha - Macromolecular Chemistry and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Polymers of furfuryl methacrylate (FMA) are interesting materials because of the presence of
the furfuryl group as the reactive diene functionality in the pendent group. Copolymers of …

Synthesis of PVDF-Based Graft Copolymeric Antifouling Membranes Showing Affinity-Driven Immobilization of Nucleobases

U Basak, M Pakhira, S Sahoo… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of different poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF)-grafted amphiphilic random ter-
/bicopolymers containing reactive poly (furfuryl methacrylate) or thermoresponsive poly …

Polymers from renewable resources: Bulk ATRP of fatty alcohol‐derived methacrylates

G Çayli, MAR Meier - European journal of lipid science and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Copper‐mediated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of lauryl methacrylate (LMA)
and other long‐chain methacrylates was investigated in bulk at 35° C by using CuCl/N, N …

Double‐grafted cylindrical brushes: synthesis and characterization of poly (lauryl methacrylate) brushes

Y Xu, H Becker, J Yuan, M Burkhardt… - Macromolecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Double‐grafted cylindrical brushes with poly (lauryl methacrylate)(PLMA) as the side chains
were synthesized using the grafting‐from strategy via atom transfer radical polymerization …

Triblock Thermoplastic Elastomers with Poly(lauryl methacrylate) as the Center Block and Poly(methyl methacrylate) or Poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) as End Blocks …

DP Chatterjee, BM Mandal - Macromolecules, 2006 - ACS Publications
The morphology, dynamic mechanical, and tensile properties of poly (methyl methacrylate)-
b-poly (lauryl methacrylate)-b-poly (methyl methacrylate) triblock copolymers have been …