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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1306-1313 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Soft Matter |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to acknowledge the support from the National Science Foundation (DMR-1252611) and United Soybean Board (Project number 1540-612-6273
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