Karak N. Vegetable Oil-Based Polymers: Properties, Processing and Applications

Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2012. — 343 p. — ISBN: 0857097105The 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 provides a comprehensive review of the research in this important field.
After an introduction to classification and polymerization, Vegetable oil-based polymers goes on to review the factors involved in polymer biodegradation. The extraction, purification and application of vegetable oils are then explored, along with vegetable oil-based polyesters and poly(ester amide)s, polyurethanes and epoxies. The book then reviews polyamides, polyolefins and vegetable oil-based hyperbranched polymers. It concludes with an analysis of vegetable oil-based polymer composites and polymer nanocomposites.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, polyolefi ns and other vegetable oil-based polymers
Vegetable oil-based hyperbranched polymers
Vegetable oil-based polymer composites
Vegetable oil-based polymer nanocomposites