Sylvain Caillol

TL;DR: This paper aims to provide a history of the use of glass in the construction of buildings in Montpellier and its applications in the 21st Century.

TL;DR: The use of vanillin as a building block for the chemical industry is discussed in this article, where vanillin is one of the only molecular phenolic compounds manufactured on an industrial scale from biomass and has the potential to become a key intermediate for the synthesis of bio-based polymers, for which aromatic monomers are needed to reach good thermo-mechanical properties.

TL;DR: Most of the biobased polyols for polyurethanes are synthesized from vegetable oils as discussed by the authors, where olefinic functionalities of triglycerides could easily be epoxidized, leading to reactive epoxide groups.

TL;DR: Amines are key intermediates in the chemical industry due to their nucleophilic characteristic which confers a high reactivity to them, and they are key monomers for the synthesis of polyamides, polyureas, polyepoxydes, which are all of growing interest in automotive, aerospace, building, or health applications.

TL;DR: Vanillin was used as a renewable building-block to develop a platform of 22 biobased compounds for polymer chemistry as mentioned in this paper, which can be used, among many others, in epoxy, polyester, polyurethanes, and Non-Isocyanate PolyUrethanes (NIPU) polymer synthesis.