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Research Project: New High-Value Biobased Materials with Applications Across Industry

Location: Bio-oils Research

Title: Plant oil-based polymers prepared in supercritical and subcritical CO2 media

Author
item Liu, Zengshe - Kevin

Submitted to: IUPAC Congress
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/29/2024
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This presentation will summarize plant oil-based polymers prepared in supercritical or subcritical CO2 media. We will report the polymerization of soybean oil, epoxidized soybean oil, and euphorbia oil (EuO) by using Lewis acid catalysts in green media and explore their industrial applications, such as surfactants, lubricants, hydrogels and so on. A variety of analytical techniques have been used to characterize formed polymers, including FTIR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and gel permeation chromatography (GPC).