TY - JOUR
T1 - From plant phenols to novel bio-based polymers
AU - Zhang, Chaoqun
AU - Xue, Junqi
AU - Yang, Xiangyu
AU - Ke, Yanzi
AU - Ou, Rongxian
AU - Wang, Yang
AU - Madbouly, Samy A.
AU - Wang, Qingwen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by Guangdong Province Science & Technology Program (2018B030306016), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFD1101202, 2019YFD1101203), Guangdong Provincial Innovation Team for General Key Technologies in Modern Agricultural Industry (2019KJ133), Key Projects of Basic Research and Applied Basic Research of the Higher Education Institutions of Guangdong Province (2018KZDXM014), and Guangzhou Municipal Key Laboratory of Woody Biomass Functional New Materials (201905010005).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Replacing petroleum-based products with inexpensive, biorenewable, natural materials is important for sustainable development and will have a significant impact on the polymer industry and the environment. Biorenewable aliphatic and cycloaliphatic compounds are less competitive with counterparts with aromatic structures for advanced polymeric materials in terms of rigidity, hydrophobicity, as well as chemical and thermal stability. Biorenewable plant phenols represent a diverse class of chemicals with a great industrial significance due to their unique structures and high abundance. The depolymerization process of lignin into small bio-based phenols is a relatively new approach and has received a considerable attention recently. This process produces key intermediates, phenolic compounds that can be used to develop and design wide range of high performance biorenewable multifunctional polymers and composites. In this review article, the production of biorenewable phenols from natural sources such as lignin by energy-, catalytic-, enzymatic-assisted depolymerization processes will be summarized. The different chemical modifications and polymerization pathways to obtain bio-based polymers (e.g. vinyl ester resins, cyanate ester, epoxy, benzoxazine resins, etc.) will be discussed. In addition, this review article will conclude with an overview of current and potential future applications of the bio-sourced phenolic-based materials in a wide range of automotive, electrical, and medical applications. Overall, the present review article will provide a quantitative experimental basis for the depolymerization process of lignin to produce biorenewable multifunctional phenolic-based polymers to increase our level of understanding of the behavior of this important class of polymeric materials and other similar bio-based polymers.
AB - Replacing petroleum-based products with inexpensive, biorenewable, natural materials is important for sustainable development and will have a significant impact on the polymer industry and the environment. Biorenewable aliphatic and cycloaliphatic compounds are less competitive with counterparts with aromatic structures for advanced polymeric materials in terms of rigidity, hydrophobicity, as well as chemical and thermal stability. Biorenewable plant phenols represent a diverse class of chemicals with a great industrial significance due to their unique structures and high abundance. The depolymerization process of lignin into small bio-based phenols is a relatively new approach and has received a considerable attention recently. This process produces key intermediates, phenolic compounds that can be used to develop and design wide range of high performance biorenewable multifunctional polymers and composites. In this review article, the production of biorenewable phenols from natural sources such as lignin by energy-, catalytic-, enzymatic-assisted depolymerization processes will be summarized. The different chemical modifications and polymerization pathways to obtain bio-based polymers (e.g. vinyl ester resins, cyanate ester, epoxy, benzoxazine resins, etc.) will be discussed. In addition, this review article will conclude with an overview of current and potential future applications of the bio-sourced phenolic-based materials in a wide range of automotive, electrical, and medical applications. Overall, the present review article will provide a quantitative experimental basis for the depolymerization process of lignin to produce biorenewable multifunctional phenolic-based polymers to increase our level of understanding of the behavior of this important class of polymeric materials and other similar bio-based polymers.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101473
DO - 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101473
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85119266486
SN - 0079-6700
VL - 125
JO - Progress in Polymer Science
JF - Progress in Polymer Science
M1 - 101473
ER -