Recent advances in plant-based vinyl ester resins and reactive diluents

SK Yadav, KM Schmalbach, E Kinaci… - European Polymer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vinyl ester resins (VERs) are used in a variety of applications. However, alternative
feedstocks and molecular structures have been recently investigated due to dwindling …

Parameters influencing moisture diffusion in epoxy-based materials during hygrothermal ageing—a review by statistical analysis

C Gillet, F Tamssaouet, B Hassoune-Rhabbour… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The hygrothermal ageing of epoxy resins and epoxy matrix composite materials has been
studied many times in the literature. Models have been developed to represent the diffusion …

Bioplastics

M Lackner - Kirk‐Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Bioplastics are biobased polymers with two sustainability concepts: biodegradability and
renewability. On the one hand, bioplastics that biodegrade to CO2 and H2O in the …

Amine hardeners and epoxy cross-linker from aromatic renewable resources

M Fache, C Montérémal, B Boutevin, S Caillol - European Polymer Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Bio-based epoxy thermosets are currently extensively investigated. To be industrially
relevant, bio-based epoxy formulations must be tailored so that the properties of the …

Breaking the symmetry of dibenzoxazines: a paradigm to tailor the design of bio-based thermosets

L Puchot, P Verge, T Fouquet, C Vancaeyzeele… - Green …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
With the ongoing efforts to promote the development of bio-based dibenzoxazine
thermosets, we explore herein a new strategy aiming at the synthesis of asymmetric …

Multicolor-tunable biomass thermochromic dyes utilizing tea polyphenols color developer for temperature-controlled linen fabric

J Liu, J Tan, H Liu, Y Yin, C Wang - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
Linen, an important industrial crop, is commonly used in the textile field. The development of
temperature-controlled linen fabrics is important for the high-value utilization of cellulose …

Development of sustainable thermosets from cardanol-based epoxy prepolymer and ionic liquids

TKL Nguyen, S Livi, BG Soares… - ACS Sustainable …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this work, the development of new biobased epoxy networks using phosphonium-based
ionic liquids combined with dicyanamide and phosphinate counteranions as initiators of …

Impact of water absorption on the creep performance of epoxy/microcrystalline cellulose composites

A Lavoratti, O Bianchi, JA Cruz… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, considerable effort has been made to study cellulose/epoxy composites. However,
there is a gap when it comes to understanding the post‐conditioning anomalous effect of …

Influence of epoxidized cardanol functionality and reactivity on network formation and properties

E Kinaci, E Can, JJL Scala, GR Palmese - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cardanol is a renewable resource based on cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL), which consists
of a phenol ring with a C15 long aliphatic side chain in the meta position with varying …

Elaboration of bio-epoxy/benzoxazine interpenetrating polymer networks: a composition-to-morphology mapping

L Puchot, P Verge, S Peralta, Y Habibi… - Polymer …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
An interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) refers to a type of polymer blend in which two
chemically distinct networks coexist, benefiting from the assets of each of them. When …