New eco-friendly polyesters from renewable resources

Nowadays the development of sustainable polymers, with convenient properties to substitute the traditional petroleum-based materials, is one of the major issues for material science. The utilization of renewable resources as feedstock for biopolyesters is a challenging target.The research work descr...

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Main Author: Sullalti, Simone <1983>
Other Authors: Celli, Annamaria
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2012
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Online Access:http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4627/
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Summary:Nowadays the development of sustainable polymers, with convenient properties to substitute the traditional petroleum-based materials, is one of the major issues for material science. The utilization of renewable resources as feedstock for biopolyesters is a challenging target.The research work described in the present thesis is strictly connected to these urgent necessities and is focused mainly in finding new biopolymers, in particular biopolyesters, which are obtainable from biomass and characterized by a wide range of properties, in order to potentially substitute polyolefins and aromatic polyesters (for example, poly(ethylene terephthalate))