TY - GEN
T1 - Synthesis of new renewable polymers from terpenes
AU - Hillmyer, Marc A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Large-volume, commercial plastics are derived from petrochemical feedstocks. The development of renewable feedstocks for established and new polymeric materials is gaining momentum in marketplace, as exemplified by the industrial-scale production of polylactide, polyhydroxyalkanoates, and other polymers with varying levels of renewable content. I will present our efforts to convert members of the terpene family, a broad class of naturally-occurring isoprenoids, into new polymeric materials. Specifically, I will discuss how menthol can be transformed into a low Tg, amorphous polyester with utility as a soft segment in biorenewable thermoplastic elastomers and the conversion of myrcene into a semicrystalline polydiene.
AB - Large-volume, commercial plastics are derived from petrochemical feedstocks. The development of renewable feedstocks for established and new polymeric materials is gaining momentum in marketplace, as exemplified by the industrial-scale production of polylactide, polyhydroxyalkanoates, and other polymers with varying levels of renewable content. I will present our efforts to convert members of the terpene family, a broad class of naturally-occurring isoprenoids, into new polymeric materials. Specifically, I will discuss how menthol can be transformed into a low Tg, amorphous polyester with utility as a soft segment in biorenewable thermoplastic elastomers and the conversion of myrcene into a semicrystalline polydiene.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649524576
SN - 9780841224414
T3 - ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
BT - American Chemical Society - 237th National Meeting and Exposition, ACS 2009, Abstracts of Scientific Papers
T2 - 237th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society, ACS 2009
Y2 - 22 March 2009 through 26 March 2009
ER -