Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Design of functional and sustainable polymers assisted by artificial intelligence

H Tran, R Gurnani, C Kim, G Pilania, HK Kwon… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods continue to make inroads into accelerated
materials design and development. Here, we review AI-enabled advances made in the …

A comprehensive review on recent advances in preparation, physicochemical characterization, and bioengineering applications of biopolymers

A Das, T Ringu, S Ghosh, N Pramanik - Polymer Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Biopolymers are mainly the polymers which are created or obtained from living creatures
such as plants and bacteria rather than petroleum, which has traditionally been the source of …

Synthesis, life cycle assessment, and polymerization of a vanillin-based spirocyclic diol toward polyesters with increased glass-transition temperature

SV Mankar, MN Garcia Gonzalez… - ACS Sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bio-based rigid diols are key building blocks in the development and preparation of high-
performance bioplastics with improved thermal and dimensional stabilities. Here, we report …

Biobased covalent adaptable networks: towards better sustainability of thermosets

XL Zhao, PX Tian, YD Li, JB Zeng - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermosets have many advantages such as excellent mechanical properties, dimensional
stability, and chemical and environmental resistance, but suffer from unsustainability …

Recent advances in carbon nanomaterial-based adsorbents for water purification

R Gusain, N Kumar, SS Ray - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Deterioration of water quality and the unavailability of drinkable water are pressing
challenges worldwide. Removal of toxic organic and inorganic pollutants from water is …

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 …

Advances in natural biopolymer‐based electrolytes and separators for battery applications

E Lizundia, D Kundu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rechargeable batteries are ubiquitous, and their usage is projected to grow tremendously
over the years. They are vital to curbing the fossil fuel dependency and are destined to play …

50th Anniversary Perspective: There Is a Great Future in Sustainable Polymers

DK Schneiderman, MA Hillmyer - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
It is likely that a half-century ago even enthusiastic and optimistic proponents of the synthetic
polymer industry (Mr. McGuire included) could not have predicted the massive scale on …

A review on biopolymer production via lignin valorization

JR Banu, S Kavitha, RY Kannah, TP Devi… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lignin based biopolymer (value added products) production is the most promising
technology in the perspective of lignin valorization and sustainable development …