Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

With the growing global population and rapid economic development, the demand for
energy and raw materials is increasing, and the supply of fossil resources as the main …

Aromatic compounds are platform chemicals used in the manufacture of commodity
polymers. The development of bio-based aromatic compounds is expected to reduce the …

Biobased materials, derived from biomass building blocks, are essential in the pursuit of
sustainable materials. Eugenol, a natural phenol obtained from clove oil, but also from lignin …

Levoglucosan is a renewable chemical obtained in high yields from pyrolysis of cellulosic
biomass, which offers rich functionality for synthetic modification and crosslinking. Here, we …

Lignins are the most abundant biopolymers that consist of aromatic units. Lignins are
obtained by fractionation of lignocellulose in the form of “technical lignins”. The …

Nowadays, industries are focussing on reducing the concentration of the volatile organic
component in the coatings, also easing the toxicity that comes hand in hand with the usage …

The application of polybenzoxazine resin still remains a puzzling problem in processability
due to the high melting temperature of benzoxazine. Here, a bio-based reactive diluent, 4 …

A series of polyester prepolymers was synthesized from itaconic acid, phthalic anhydride,
propane-1, 2-diol and diethylene glycol by condensation polymerization. The use of itaconic …

In recent decades, tremendous interest and technological development have been poured
into thermosets and their composites. The thermosets and composites with unsaturated …