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SUBMITTER: Nanni G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6630956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nanni Gabriele G Heredia-Guerrero José A JA Paul Uttam C UC Dante Silvia S Caputo Gianvito G Canale Claudio C Athanassiou Athanassia A Fragouli Despina D Bayer Ilker S IS
Polymers 20190620 6
Poly(furfuryl alcohol) (PFA) is a bioresin synthesized from furfuryl alcohol (FA) that is derived from renewable saccharide-rich biomass. In this study, we compounded this bioresin with polycaprolactone (PCL) for the first time, introducing new functional polymer blends. Although PCL is biodegradable, its production relies on petroleum precursors such as cyclohexanone oils. With the method proposed herein, this dependence on petroleum-derived precursors/monomers is reduced by using PFA without s ...[more]