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Report 43 Polymeric Materials from Renewable Resources,... 

J. Bozell, Chemicals and Materials from Renewable Resources , ACS Symposium Series 784, Oxford University Press, 2001. 

Brown, R.C., Radlein, D., Piskorz, J., Pretreatment processes to increase pyrolytic yield of Levoglucosan from herbaceous biomass, chemicals and materials from renewable resources,... 

The reasons to use raw materials from renewable resources can be various. When a natural flavour ingredient has to be prepared, a natural raw material is essential, and natural raw materials are renewable, because they come from plants, animals or fermentation. For nature-identical flavour ingredients, a renewable raw material can be a good choice from a chemical point of view and quite often also from a cost point of view if turpentine is readily available in a country with limited or no petrochemical resources, -pinene from the renewable source is cheaper than chemically synthesised -pinene. A manufacturer chooses only for sustainable production if it is remunerative and at least as attractive as other options. 

An additional approach to environmentally responsible inks is to source the raw materials from renewable resources. In this approach solvents are based mainly on alkyl lactates and binders such as cellulose or nitrocellulose. ... 

The present choice of systems based on furan monomers is not exhaustive of course, but hopefully sufficient to illustrate the enormous potential of this area of polymer science, which does justice to the plea for more macromolecular materials from renewable resources. 

Gandini, A. (2008) Macromolecules, 41, 9491 Coates, G.W., and Hillmyer, M.A. (2009) A Virtual Issue of Macromolecules Polymers from Renewable Resources , Macromolecules, 42 (21), 7987-7989, doi 10.1021/ ma902107 Various, (2008) Polym. Rev., 48 (1). A special issue devoted to polymers from renewable resources Eichhorn, S.J., and Gandini, A. (2010) Materials from Renewable Resources, a Special Issue of MRS Bull., 35,187-225. 

Sugar based polymers, which are obtained by polymerization of vinyl sugars, have recently received increased attention from two viewpoints. One is the development of environmentally friendly material from renewable resources. Another is physiologically active material that mimics carbohydrate on cell surface. This article provides an overview of known sugar based polymers and the recent advances of the poly(vinylalcohol) (PVA) with sugar pendants. 

Recently, the development of new functional materials from renewable resources such as various kinds of saccharides has received remarkable interest 1, 2, 3). Various types of synthetic polymer containing saccharides have been investigated ( , 5). There are two types of sugar-based polymers (i) sugar-containing linear polymer (ii) polymer with sugar pendant (Figure 1). 

The worldwide annual consumption of polymeric materials and relevant plastic items is nowadays well above 300 million Tons, of which less than 2 million Tons is represented by polymeric materials from renewable resources. These last materials, when converted to relevant plastic manufactured goods, are identified under the ambiguous chimeric bioplastics terminology as evidenced in ofiicial EU documents [1, 2]. 

Roller, M., Salerno, A., Muhr, A. etal. (2013) Polyhydroxyalkanoates biodegradable polymeric materials from renewable resources. Materiali and Technologije, 47, (1), 5-12. 

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