Recent advances in thermoplastic elastomers from living polymerizations: Macromolecular architectures and supramolecular chemistry

W Wang, W Lu, A Goodwin, H Wang, P Yin… - Progress in polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
adhesives, elastomers, coatings, fibers, and in additive manufacturing techniques such as …

Wood‐derived functional polymeric materials

J Wang, D Zhang, F Chu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, tremendous efforts have been dedicated to developing wood‐derived
functional polymeric materials due to their distinctive properties, including environmental …

Macromolecular engineering by atom transfer radical polymerization

K Matyjaszewski, NV Tsarevsky - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This Perspective presents recent advances in macromolecular engineering enabled by
ATRP. They include the fundamental mechanistic and synthetic features of ATRP with …

Sustainable elastomers from renewable biomass

Z Wang, L Yuan, C Tang - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Sustainable elastomers have undergone explosive growth in recent years,
partly due to the resurgence of biobased materials prepared from renewable natural …

Advances in rosin-based chemicals: the latest recipes, applications and future trends

S Kugler, P Ossowicz, K Malarczyk-Matusiak… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
A comprehensive review of the publications about rosin-based chemicals has been
compiled. Rosin, or colophony, is a natural, abundant, cheap and non-toxic raw material …

Biobased building blocks for the rational design of renewable block polymers

AL Holmberg, KH Reno, RP Wool, TH Epps III - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Block polymers (BPs) derived from biomass (biobased) are necessary components of a
sustainable future that relies minimally on petroleum-based plastics for applications ranging …

Catalyst-free self-healing bio-based polymers: robust mechanical properties, shape memory, and recyclability

Y Xu, S Dai, L Bi, J Jiang, H Zhang… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The poor mechanical properties and disadvantages of catalysts limit the application of self-
healing materials. To address these issues, catalyst-free self-healing bio-based polymers …

Sustainable rubbers and rubber additives

P Sarkar, AK Bhowmick - Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rubber is one of the most versatile materials having myriad of applications—from niche
rubber band and eraser to highly engineered spacecraft seal. Of late, the glittering concept …

A review of wood biomass-based fatty acids and rosin acids use in polymeric materials

L Vevere, A Fridrihsone, M Kirpluks, U Cabulis - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, vegetable oils as a potential replacement for petrochemical materials
have been extensively studied. Tall oil (crude tall oil, distilled tall oil, tall oil fatty acids, and …

One-pot cellulose etherification and self-crosslinking via a mild hydroxyl–yne click reaction in a homogeneous system

B Li, C Xu, J Yu, L Liu, X Zhang, Y Fan - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemical modification of cellulose via sustainable pathways is highly desirable for high
performance cellulose derivatives. Herein, a novel one-pot method for the etherification and …