The development of viable alternatives to petroleum-based polymeric materials is a
compelling contemporary challenge attributable to environmental concerns and the effects …

The interest in polymers from renewable resources has been witnessing an incessant
growth in both academia and industry, with these blooming activities covering a …

Vegetable oils are one of the most important classes of bio-resources for producing
polymeric materials. The main components of vegetable oils are triglycerides–esters of …

The thermal stability and flame retardancy of polyurethanes is reviewed. Polyurethanes
(PUs) are an important class of polymers that have wide application in a number of different …

The use of vegetable oils as renewable raw materials for the synthesis of various monomers
and polymeric materials is reviewed. Vegetable oils are generally considered to be the most …

Despite lots of strategies involving extrinsic and intrinsic solutions to self-healing materials, it
remains a challenge to achieve a self-healable material with excellent mechanical …

Plant oils are already one of the most important platform chemicals for the chemical industry
due to its universal availability, inherent biodegradability, and low price. Nowadays, plant …

Polyurethanes are among the most versatile polymers because of the wide range of
monomers, particularly diols or polyols, that can be utilized in their synthesis. This Review …

The environmentally friendly vegetable-oil-based waterborne polyurethane dispersions with
very promising properties have been successfully synthesized without difficulty from a series …

Veggie‐based products: Vegetable‐oil‐based polymeric materials, prepared by free radical,
cationic, and olefin metathesis polymerizations, range from soft rubbers to ductile or rigid …