With the current decreasing fossil resources and increasing carbon dioxide emissions,
researchers are increasingly concerned about the development and utilization of biomass …

With the development of society, plastics play a significant role in daily supplies owing to
their advantages. Whereas, insufficient scratch resistance and vulnerable plastic surfaces …

Materials with multifunctionality or multiresponsiveness, especially polymers derived from
green, renewable precursors, have recently attracted significant attention resulting from their …

Although vegetable oil-based waterborne polyurethane (WPUs) possesses unique
advantage like environmental friendliness, the shortcomings of low mechanical properties …

Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) elastomers are widely used in daily products owing to
their flexible structures and decent mechanical properties. Vegetable oils (VOs) are …

Bio-based waterborne polyurethanes (WPUs) as a novel kind of economic and eco-friendly
coating have attracted more attention in recent decades due to their sustainability …

Lignin, as a green and environmentally sustainable natural material, is indispensable to be
reasonably developed and utilized. Herein, lignin macromolecules are used as raw …

Considering the current trend of finding sustainable alternatives to the existing fossil-based
plastics, in this review we describe what makes a bioelastomer “bio” and what this implies in …

A novel tri-functional castor oil-based methacrylate prepolymer (MCOG) was developed by
mercapto castor oil (MCO) and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) in this study through a two-step …

In this study, two different bio-based waterborne polyurethanes (WBPUs) that use castor oil
and tartaric acid in their formulations were modified by the incorporation of a renewable …