Biobased vitrimers: Towards sustainable and adaptable performing polymer materials

MA Lucherelli, A Duval, L Avérous - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades, Covalent Adaptable Networks (CAN) appeared as an innovative
polymer family, able to bridge the gap between thermoplastics and thermosets. CAN rely on …

Bio-based hyperbranched epoxy resins: synthesis and recycling

Y Jiang, J Li, D Li, Y Ma, S Zhou, Y Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Epoxy resins (EPs), accounting for about 70% of the thermosetting resin market, have been
recognized as the most widely used thermosetting resins in the world. Nowadays, 90% of …

[HTML][HTML] A fully bio-based epoxy vitrimer: Self-healing, triple-shape memory and reprocessing triggered by dynamic covalent bond exchange

X Yang, L Guo, X Xu, S Shang, H Liu - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Vitrimers are a new type of polymers with promising applications in innovative materials.
Epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) is an ideal candidate for vitrimer preparation owing to its …

Approaches to sustainable and continually recyclable cross-linked polymers

DJ Fortman, JP Brutman, GX De Hoe… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cross-linked polymers are ubiquitous in daily life, finding applications as tires, insulation,
adhesives, automotive parts, and countless other products. The covalent cross-links in these …

Polymer engineering based on reversible covalent chemistry: A promising innovative pathway towards new materials and new functionalities

ZP Zhang, MZ Rong, MQ Zhang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Reversible covalent polymers are able to change their bond arrangement and structure via
reversible reaction triggered by external stimuli including heating, light and pH, while …

Recent development of repairable, malleable and recyclable thermosetting polymers through dynamic transesterification

T Liu, B Zhao, J Zhang - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
A fully polymerized (cured) thermoset is no longer capable of flow like a thermoplastic to be
recycled and reprocessed into a new object. Developing repairable, malleable and …

Multifunctionality in epoxy resins

JC Capricho, B Fox, N Hameed - Polymer Reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Epoxy resin will continue to be in the forefront of many thermoset applications due to its
versatile properties. However, with advancement in manufacturing, changing societal …

Malleable and recyclable thermosets: The next generation of plastics

Y Jin, Z Lei, P Taynton, S Huang, W Zhang - Matter, 2019 - cell.com
Malleable thermosets are crosslinked polymers containing dynamic covalent bonds, which
can be reversibly cleaved and reformed. They have attracted considerable attention in …

Recyclable 3D printing of vitrimer epoxy

Q Shi, K Yu, X Kuang, X Mu, CK Dunn, ML Dunn… - Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing of polymeric materials for various applications has been quickly developed in
recent years. In contrast to thermoplastics, 3D printed thermosets, although desirable, are …

A catalyst-free epoxy vitrimer system based on multifunctional hyperbranched polymer

J Han, T Liu, C Hao, S Zhang, B Guo, J Zhang - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
To date, all epoxy vitrimer systems reported in the literature rely on addition of significant
amounts of catalysts to achieve the dynamic transesterification reaction (TER). However, the …