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Plant oils: The perfect renewable resource for polymer science?!

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In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the present situation with special attention to the use of olefin metathesis and thiol-ene chemistry as synthetic methods and as polymerization techniques.
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This article is published in European Polymer Journal.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 551 citations till now.

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Progress of Polymers from Renewable Resources: Furans, Vegetable Oils, and Polysaccharides

TL;DR: Oils, and Polysaccharides Alessandro Gandini,*,‡ Talita M. Lacerda,†,‡ Antonio J. F. Carvalho,† and Eliane Trovatti†.
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Progress in Renewable Polymers from Natural Terpenes, Terpenoids, and Rosin

TL;DR: This review covers recent progress in the field of renewable bio-based monomers and polymers from natural resources: terpenes, terpenoids, and rosin, which are a class of hydrocarbon-rich biomass with abundance and low cost, holding much potential for utilization as organic feedstocks for green plastics and composites.
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From monomers to polymers from renewable resources: Recent advances

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a panoramic overview of the recent progress, but mainly of the broad possibilities that are still available in the hands of researchers working on this topic.
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Recent advances in vegetable oil-based polymers and their composites

TL;DR: A review of recent advances in polymeric materials from vegetable oils in terms of preparation, characterization, and properties can be found in this article, where nano-composites and fiber reinforced composites based on bio-polymers matrices are reviewed.
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A Review of Natural Fibers Used in Biocomposites: Plant, Animal and Regenerated Cellulose Fibers

TL;DR: In this paper, the reinforcement potential of natural fibers and their properties have been described in numerous papers and the chemical composition and properties of each of the fibers changes, which demands the detailed comparison of these fibers.
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Acyclic Triene Metathesis Polymerization with Chain-Stoppers : Molecular Weight Control in the Synthesis of Branched Polymers

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis of branched macromolecules from renewable resources via olefin metathesis is described, and it is shown that it is possible to control the molecular weight of a triglyceride by the application of methyl acrylate as a chain stopper for this straightforward one-step one pot polymerization.
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Synthesis and polymerization of the bromoacrylated plant oil triglycerides to rigid, flame‐retardant polymers

TL;DR: In this article, a rigid thermoset polymer was prepared from the radical copolymerization of bromoacrylated soybean oil with styrene, which showed semirigid properties.
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A new route to acrylate oils: Crosslinking and properties of acrylate triglycerides from high oleic sunflower oil

TL;DR: In this article, two new hydroxyl-containing triglycerides were functionalized as acrylate esters and radically crosslinked in presence of different amounts of pentaerythritol tetraacrylate.
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Model studies and the ADMET polymerization of soybean oil.

TL;DR: In this article, the acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) was used to produce polymeric materials ranging from sticky oils to rubbers, with monocyclic oligomers predominating.
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Soy-based UV-curable thiol–ene coatings

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize soy-based thiol-ene enes and formulate them with petrochemical-based enes or thiols, respectively, to make thiolene UV-curable coatings.
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