Journal
POLYMER-PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
Volume 49, Issue 15, Pages 1581-1590Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03602559.2010.512338
Keywords
Bio-based resin; Conversion efficiency; Epoxidation; Epoxidized vegetable oils; Epoxy blends
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- Universiti Sains Malaysia [8021013]
- Research University Postgraduate Research Grant Scheme
- MOHE, Malaysia
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Epoxidized vegetable oils (EVO) have drawn much attention in recent years, especially in the polymer industry as they are economical, available, environmentally friendly, non-noxious and renewable. Vegetable oils can be transformed into useful polymerizable oxygenated monomers commonly by Prileshajev-epoxidation, catalytic epoxidation using acidic ion exchange resin, chemo-enzymatic epoxidation, or metal-catalyzed epoxidation. Among those epoxidation methods, chemo-enzymatic epoxidation has achieved considerable interest nowadays since this method is safe, environmentally friendly and conversion rate of epoxidation usually exceeds 90%. Bio-based epoxidized vegetable oils from renewable natural resources are potential green materials to partially substitute and toughen petrochemical-based polymers.
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