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Producing Biobased Polyesters with Tunable Properties
Written by AZoMMar 3 2021
As far as green chemistry is concerned, identifying novel and lasting solutions to the material needs is one of the main targets.
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The countless plastics used by people in their everyday life, right from mattresses to food and cars, are mainly made from oil-based monomers that form the building blocks of polymers. Determining bio-based monomers for polymer synthesis is an appealing way to realize more lasting solutions in the area of materials development.
In a study published in the
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal, scientists from the Kleij group describe a new method to make biobased polyesters with tunable properties. The team has been developing the multifunctional structure of the terpene β-elemene: three double bonds that exhibit unique reactivity, thus enabling a selective transformation of such bonds and h