| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials Engineering -- From Ideas to Practice: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Jiann-Yang Hwang
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| Presentation Title |
Novel Route of Polymerization for Engineering Thermorrigid Biopolymer Based on Soybean Oil
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| Author(s) |
João Gabriel Passos Rodrigues, Karollyne Gomes de Castro Monsores, Suzane de Sant’ Ana Oliveira, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Ricardo Pondé Weber |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Sergio Neves Monteiro |
| Abstract Scope |
Due to sustainability issues related to the use of non-renewable sources, mainly petroleum, on the syntheses of polymers, investigation on the production of biopolymers synthesized from vegetable oils, such as soybean, has grown in recent years, becoming one of the most promising research areas. For the synthesis in the vegetable oils to be considered effective, it is necessary to generate reactions of epoxidation in main unsaturated functional groups. Therefore, this work aimed to develop a novel route of epoxidation and polymerization of a biopolymer based on soybean oil. The evaluation of the epoxidation reaction was performed by physicochemical characterization through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric, and crosslinking analysis. The results confirm the effectiveness of the epoxidation reaction and the ring-opening polymerization reaction with phosphoric acid as a curing agent. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Composites, Biomaterials, Process Technology |