Castor oil as a renewable resource for the chemical industry

H Mutlu, MAR Meier - European Journal of Lipid Science and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Castor oil is, as many other plant oils, a very valuable renewable resource for the chemical
industry. This review article provides an overview on this specialty oil, covering its …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetable oil based eco-friendly coating materials: A review article

M Alam, D Akram, E Sharmin, F Zafar… - Arabian Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Vegetable oils (VO) constitute the single, largest, easily available, low cost, non-toxic, non-
depletable, biodegradable family yielding materials that are capable of competing with fossil …

Green approaches to engineer tough biobased epoxies: a review

G Mashouf Roudsari, AK Mohanty… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Epoxy resins possess a variety of excellent properties including adhesion, mechanical
performance, electrical insulation and chemical resistance; however cured epoxy resin is …

Castor oil-based hyperbranched polyurethanes as advanced surface coating materials

S Thakur, N Karak - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract 21st Century is treated as the century for highly branched macromolecules,
because of their unique structural architecture and outstanding performance characteristics …

[PDF][PDF] Bio-based polyurethane prepared from Kraft lignin and modified castor oil

LB Tavares, CV Boas, GR Schleder… - Express Polymer …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Current challenges highlight the need for polymer research using renewable natural
sources as a substitute for petroleum-based polymers. The use of polyols obtained from …