Bio-based polyesters: Recent progress and future prospects

Q Zhang, M Song, Y Xu, W Wang, Z Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymer materials is among
the most pressing contemporary challenges for polymer science and engineering. Bio …

Recommendations for replacing PET on packaging, fiber, and film materials with biobased counterparts

AF Sousa, R Patrício, Z Terzopoulou, DN Bikiaris… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review sheds light on urgent questions that arise from the need to replace a polymer
resin,–poly (ethylene terephthalate), which represents 7.7% market-share in the global …

Renewable polymers and plastics: Performance beyond the green

A Pellis, M Malinconico, A Guarneri, L Gardossi - New Biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Renewable bio-based polymers are one of the effective answers that the bioeconomy offers
to solve the environmental emergency connected to plastics and more specifically fossil …

Alternative monomers based on lignocellulose and their use for polymer production

I Delidovich, PJC Hausoul, L Deng… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials play a key role in modern industry. Owing to outstanding and very
versatile properties of polymers, they have rather quickly occupied the great niche of …

Progress of polymers from renewable resources: furans, vegetable oils, and polysaccharides

A Gandini, TM Lacerda, AJF Carvalho… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The interest in polymers from renewable resources has been witnessing an incessant
growth in both academia and industry, with these blooming activities covering a …

Biobased polyesters and other polymers from 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid: a tribute to furan excellency

AF Sousa, C Vilela, AC Fonseca, M Matos… - Polymer …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Motivated by the general concern about sustainability and environmental issues, an intense
search for renewable-based polymers has grown exponentially in recent years. This search …

Production of bio-based 2, 5-furan dicarboxylate polyesters: Recent progress and critical aspects in their synthesis and thermal properties

GZ Papageorgiou, DG Papageorgiou… - European Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Polymers based on 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid (2, 5-FDCA), consist a new class of
alipharomatic polyesters that can be prepared from monomers derived straight from …

Catalytic transformation of the furfural platform into bifunctionalized monomers for polymer synthesis

J Zhu, G Yin - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Furfural is currently industrially produced from raw agricultural materials with almost no limit;
however, its market volume is very limited due to its monofunctionalized furan structure …

A perspective on PEF synthesis, properties, and end-life

K Loos, R Zhang, I Pereira, B Agostinho, H Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This critical review considers the extensive research and development dedicated, in the last
years, to a single polymer, the poly (ethylene 2, 5-furandicarboxylate), usually simply …

Biobased poly (ethylene 2, 5-furancoate): No longer an alternative, but an irreplaceable polyester in the polymer industry

X Fei, J Wang, J Zhu, X Wang, X Liu - ACS Sustainable Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recently, studies on the synthesis, modification, and functionalization of polyesters derived
from 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid (2, 5-FDCA) have attracted widespread attention. Among …