Issue 6, 2017
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Soft Matter

A biomass approach to mendable bio-elastomers†

Liang Yuan,a   Zhongkai Wang,a   Mitra S. Ganewatta,a   Md Anisur Rahman,a   Meghan E. Lamma  and  Chuanbing Tang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
E-mail: tang4@mailbox.sc.edu

Abstract

Sustainable bioelastomers with high elastic recovery, high resilience and mendability are conceptualized with low chain-entanglement polymers that are predominantly originated from renewable biomass. Polymers with plant oil-derived fatty groups at the side chain were installed with furan, which allowed Diels–Alder addition to introduce dynamic covalent crosslinking. These elastomers are mendable via retro Diels–Alder. Reprocessing of these polymers led to the formation of elastomers with preservation of excellent resilience and elastic recovery.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SM02003H
Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Aug 2016
Accepted
10 Jan 2017
First published
10 Jan 2017

Soft Matter, 2017,13, 1306-1313

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A biomass approach to mendable bio-elastomers

L. Yuan, Z. Wang, M. S. Ganewatta, M. A. Rahman, M. E. Lamm and C. Tang, Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 1306 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM02003H

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