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Synthetic mimicking of plant oils and comparison with naturally grown products in polyurethane synthesis

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Coles, Stuart R., Barker, Guy C., Clark, Andrew J., Kirwan, Kerry, Jacobs, Daniel K., Makenji, Kylash and Pink, David (2008) Synthetic mimicking of plant oils and comparison with naturally grown products in polyurethane synthesis. Macromolecular Bioscience, Vol.8 (No.6). pp. 526-532. doi:10.1002/mabi.200700238

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Abstract

The use of plant oils as industrial feedstocks can often be hampered by their lack of optimization towards a particular process,as well as their development being risky; growing suitable volumes of crops to test can take up to five years. To circumvent this, we aimed to discover a method that would mimic plant oil profiles in the laboratory, and show that they exhibited similar properties to the naturally grown plant oils in a given process. Using the synthesis of polyurethanes as an example, we have synthesized six different polymers and demonstrated that plant oils will produce polymers with similar physical properties to those mimicked in the laboratory. The use of this mimicking process can be extended to other types of polymers to obtain a method for predicting the properties of a given material based on the plant oil composition of a crop before it is grown in bulk.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Chemistry
Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) > Warwick HRI (2004-2010)
Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Biopolymers, Polyurethanes -- Synthesis, Triglycerides -- Synthesis, Vegetable oils, Synthetic biology
Journal or Publication Title: Macromolecular Bioscience
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
ISSN: 1616-5187
Official Date: 11 June 2008
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DateEvent
11 June 2008Published
Volume: Vol.8
Number: No.6
Number of Pages: 7
Page Range: pp. 526-532
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.200700238
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (WIMRC)

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