From plant phenols to novel bio-based polymers

C Zhang, J Xue, X Yang, Y Ke, R Ou, Y Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Replacing petroleum-based products with inexpensive, biorenewable, natural materials is
important for sustainable development and will have a significant impact on the polymer …

Sustainable polymers from renewable resources

Y Zhu, C Romain, CK Williams - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Renewable resources are used increasingly in the production of polymers. In particular,
monomers such as carbon dioxide, terpenes, vegetable oils and carbohydrates can be used …

A review on lignin-based epoxy resins: Lignin effects on their synthesis and properties

X Lu, X Gu - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Lignin can be used as a sustainable alternative to bisphenol A (BPA) to prepared lignin-
based epoxy resins. Lignin effects including molecular weight, phenolic content, G/S unit …

Synthesize and introduce bio-based aromatic s-triazine in epoxy resin: Enabling extremely high thermal stability, mechanical properties, and flame retardancy to …

Y Qi, Z Weng, Y Kou, L Song, J Li, J Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Developing bio-based epoxy resins with high thermal stability and mechanical properties as
well as satisfactory intrinsic flame retardancy is of increasing demand, though this has …

Epoxy thermosets and materials derived from bio-based monomeric phenols: Transformations and performances

J Wan, J Zhao, X Zhang, H Fan, J Zhang, D Hu… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

A renewable resveratrol-based epoxy resin with high Tg, excellent mechanical properties and low flammability

Y Tian, Q Wang, L Shen, Z Cui, L Kou, J Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Preparing low-flammable biobased epoxy resins with a high glass transition temperature (T
g) and excellent mechanical properties is significant for the rapid growing electronics and …

Magnolol-based bio-epoxy resin with acceptable glass transition temperature, processability and flame retardancy

Y Qi, Z Weng, K Zhang, J Wang, S Zhang, C Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of sustainable bio-based epoxy resins having better comprehensive
properties than available petroleum-based epoxy resins is of paramount importance for …

Are lignin-derived monomers and polymers truly sustainable? An in-depth green metrics calculations approach

S Fadlallah, PS Roy, G Garnier, K Saito, F Allais - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The usage of renewable resources has become a hot topic upon the rising global
awareness against fossil feedstock consumption. Lignin, the 2nd most abundant natural …

Biomass-derived Schiff base compound enabled fire-safe epoxy thermoset with excellent mechanical properties and high glass transition temperature

W Xie, S Huang, D Tang, S Liu, J Zhao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, biomass-derived fire-safe epoxy thermosets have been developed for the
substitute of petroleum-derived bisphenol A epoxy thermosets due to the shortage of …

Biologically active organic compounds as insect growth regulators (IGRs): introduction, mode of action, and some synthetic methods

M Gad, S Aref, A Abdelhamid… - Current Chemistry …, 2021 - m.growingscience.com
Biologically active organic compounds continue to attract great interest due to the wide
variety of interesting applications observed for these compounds. This review results from …