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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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Physical properties of canola oil based polyurethane networks.

TL;DR: A new generation polyol (generation-II) with significantly higher triol content and higher hydroxyl value was synthesized from canola oil by introducing a mild solvent and a more efficient reductive reagent to the previous synthetic procedure.
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Fabrication and Properties of Vegetable‐Oil‐Based Glass Fiber Composites by Ring‐Opening Metathesis Polymerization

TL;DR: In this paper, a glass fiber biobased composites have been prepared by ROMP of a commercially available vegetable oil derivative possessing an unsaturated bicyclic moiety, and DCPD.
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Ring‐opening metathesis polymerization of a modified linseed oil with varying levels of crosslinking

TL;DR: In this paper, a commercial norbornyl-functionalized linseed oil, blended with a bicyclic norbornene-based crosslinking agent, undergoes ring-opening metathesis polymerization with the 1st generation Grubbs' catalyst to form a biorenewable polymer network.
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A new enone-containing triglyceride derivative as precursor of thermosets from renewable resources

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel triglyceride containing α,β-unsaturated ketone was prepared through photoperoxidation from high oleic sunflower oil by two steps one pot environmentally friendly procedure.
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The Chemistry of Metathesized Soybean Oil

TL;DR: In this paper, a very mild, effective epoxidation procedure for soybean oil, utilizing methyltrioxoroxorhenium (VII) (MTO) and pyridine as the catalyst system and hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant, was developed.
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