Vegetable oil-based polymers properties, processing and applications

The growing need to find a sustainable, environmentally-friendly replacement for petroleum-based materials is fuelling the development of bio-based polymers from renewable resources. Amongst the most promising of these are vegetable oil-based polymeric materials. Vegetable oil-based polymers provide...

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Main Author Karak, Niranjan
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia : Woodhead Publishing, 2012.
SeriesWoodhead Publishing in materials.
Subjects
Plant polymers.
Biopolymers.
Plants > Composition.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780857097149
9781628703856
9780857097101
Physical Description1 online zdroj (pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Fundamentals of polymers
  • Biodegradable polymers
  • Vegetable oils and their derivatives
  • Vegetable oil-based polyesters
  • Vegetable oil-based poly(ester amide)s
  • Vegetable oil-based polyurethanes
  • Vegetable oil-based epoxies
  • Polyamides, polyolefins and other vegetable oil-based polymers
  • Vegetable oil-based hyperbranched polymers
  • Vegetable oil-based polymer composites
  • Vegetable oil-based polymer nanocomposites.

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