Plant Oil-Derived Epoxy Polymers toward Sustainable Biobased Thermosets

Zhongkai Wang; Liang Yuan; Mitra S. Ganewatta; Meghan E. Lamm; Md Anisur Rahman; Jifu Wang; Shengquan Liu; Chuanbing Tang

doi:10.1002/marc.201700009

Plant Oil-Derived Epoxy Polymers toward Sustainable Biobased Thermosets

Zhongkai Wang, Liang Yuan, Mitra S. Ganewatta, Meghan E. Lamm, Md Anisur Rahman, Jifu Wang, Shengquan Liu, Chuanbing Tang

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Abstract

Epoxy polymers (EPs) derived from soybean oil with varied chemical structures are synthesized. These polymers are then cured with anhydrides to yield soybean-oil-derived epoxy thermosets. The curing kinetic, thermal, and mechanical properties are well characterized. Due to the high epoxide functionality per epoxy polymer chain, these thermosets exhibit tensile strength over an order of magnitude higher than a control formulation with epoxidized soybean oil. More importantly, thermosetting materials ranging from soft elastomers to tough thermosets can be obtained simply by using different EPs and/or by controlling feed ratios of EPs to anhydrides. (Figure presented.).

Original language	English
Article number	1700009
Journal	Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume	38
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201700009
State	Published - Jun 2017
Externally published	Yes

Funding

Support from the National Science Foundation (DMR-1252611) and National Science Foundation of China (51603002) are acknowledged.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation	DMR-1252611
National Natural Science Foundation of China	51603002

Keywords

biobased
epoxy
soybean oil
thermoset

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