In polymer science and industry, the important role of thermosetting resin is well-recognized.
However, most thermosets suffer from the overdependence on petroleum resource and in …

Epoxy resins have been widely used for coatings, electronic materials, adhesives, and
matrices for fiber-reinforced composites because of their outstanding mechanical properties …

Recently, tremendous attentions have been paid to the fabrication of bio-based intrinsic fire-
retarded epoxy resins with outstanding thermal and mechanical properties from renewable …

Activated carbon fibers (ACF) are relatively novel and by far one of the most important
fibrous carbon materials owing to their special characteristics such as fibrous structure, high …

Lignin derivative vanillin when coupled with diamines and diethyl phosphite followed by
reaction with echichlorohydrin yields high-performance flame retardant epoxy resins …

The versatile characteristic of epoxy and its diversity made it suitable for different industrial
applications such as laminated circuit board, electronic component encapsulations, surface …

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in bio-based epoxy thermosets. A variety
of epoxy thermosets have been synthesized from various bioresources. In particular, epoxy …

Cationic photopolymerization is amongst the greenest processes used to obtain polymers
since light is abundant, inexpensive and allows for rapid and waste-less curing at room …

Bisphenol A is an oil-derived, large market volume chemical with a wide spectrum of
applications in plastics, adhesives and thermal papers. However, bisphenol A is not …

Vanillin was used as a renewable building-block to develop a platform of 22 biobased
compounds for polymer chemistry. Vanillin-derived biobased monomers bearing epoxy …