High Performance Plant Phenol-based Polymers

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Resources of plant phenols
3 Microbial and enzymatic methods for phenolic production
4 Thiol-ene polymer based on plant phenols
5 Polyimine thermosets based on plant phenols
6 Epoxy resins based on plant phenols
7 Polyurethane based on plant phenols
8 Polyesters based on plant phenols
9 Polycatechol-based on plant phenols
10 Recyclable and self-healing plant phenol-based polymers
11 Plant phenol-based shape memory polymers
12 Applications of plant phenol-based polymers

About the author

Samy Madbouly is a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He served as a senior research scientist at the School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, and at the Center for Biomaterial Development, Institute of Polymer Research, GKSS, Germany. He also worked as assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University and School of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Senior Polymer Engineer at Schlumberger, USA.
Chaoqun Zhang is a Full Professor at the College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, China. Prof. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 from Iowa State University, USA. Following his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota from 2014 to 2015, and at Texas A&M University, USA, from 2015 to 2016, before returning to China.

Product details

• Authors: Samy (EDT)/ Zhang Madbouly
• Assisted by: Samy Madbouly (Editor), Madbouly Samy (Editor), Chaoqun Zhang (Editor), Zhang Chaoqun (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9780443190193
• ISBN: 978-0-443-19019-3
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Physical chemistry; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Textiles & Polymers, Mechanical Engineering, Textile & fibre technology, Textiles and fibres, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Engineering applications of polymers and composites, Plastics & polymers technology, Plastics and polymers