Abstract
Vegetable oils are promising renewable resources for polymers, due to their low cost, ready availability, and versatile applications. Recently, increasing attention has been paid to vegetable oil-based polymeric materials due to both economic and environmental concerns. This review focuses on the latest developments in vegetable oil-based thermosets prepared by a variety of polymerization methods. The thermosets obtained exhibit a wide range of thermomechanical properties from soft and flexible rubbers to rigid and hard plastics. Some of the thermosets have properties comparable to petroleum-based analogs and show promise as replacements, providing possible solutions to environmental and energy concerns.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3-27 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Journal of Renewable Materials |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Materials Science (miscellaneous)
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
