Cellulose has attracted considerable attention as the strongest potential candidate feedstock
for bio-based polymeric material production. During the past decade, significant progress in …

Polymeric materials play a key role in modern industry. Owing to outstanding and very
versatile properties of polymers, they have rather quickly occupied the great niche of …

Searching a renewable and flame-retardant alternative to bisphenol A epoxy resins is a
necessary development trend. Diphenolic acid, a plant derivative, has been proven to be …

Lignin derivative vanillin when coupled with diamines and diethyl phosphite followed by
reaction with echichlorohydrin yields high-performance flame retardant epoxy resins …

Thermosets (also called thermosetting polymers) are a family of plastics characterized by the
fact that they are formed starting from a liquid solution that irreversibly leads to a solid …

Cationic photopolymerization is amongst the greenest processes used to obtain polymers
since light is abundant, inexpensive and allows for rapid and waste-less curing at room …

Bisphenol A is an oil-derived, large market volume chemical with a wide spectrum of
applications in plastics, adhesives and thermal papers. However, bisphenol A is not …

The field of biorenewable polymers is ever-expanding, aided by the interest of the general
public to adopt more sustainable practices for natural resource utilization as well as waste …

The low biodegradability of petroleum-based polymers and the exhaustible nature of the oil
reserves have intensified interest in natural renewing resources for the chemical synthesis of …

Isosorbide is a platform chemical of considerable importance for the future replacement of
fossil resource‐based products. Applications as monomers and building blocks for new …