Catalysis for Monomers and Polymers from Renewable Resources
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2021) | Viewed by 8440
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable industrial chemistry; green engineering; monomers and polymers from renewable resources; polymer nanocomposites; polymer recycling; materials characterization
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Interests: Catalytic reaction engineering; Refinery processes (fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocraking, hydrodesulfurization, isomerization, reforming); Production of reformulated fuels and biofuels and biochemical; Catalyst deactivation, characterization and evaluation; Thermochemical processes of biomass and coal conversion (pyrolysis, catalytic pyrolysis, gasification); Biorefinery processes; Production and upgrading of biofuels
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable, environmentally friendly polymers from renewable resources are considered benign alternatives for petrochemical plastics. Biobased polymers can be obtained through chemical modification of natural polymers, but they can also be synthesized via a two-step process from biomass (lignin, cellulose, starch, plant oils). Production of value-added co-products, such as monomers from biomass, along-side biofuels through integrated biorefinery processes is beneficial. Drop-in monomers, such as ethylene, or terephthalic acid, or new monomers like 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, isosorbide, lactic acid, and vanillic acid, can be obtained through chemical or biochemical conversion. Polymerization of bioderived monomers enables production of bioplastics including biopolyethylene, bio-poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(lactic acid), or poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate) (PEF). Finally, CO2 can be also used as monomer in polymer synthesis.
Most biobased monomers are currently derived from fermentation or biotechnology. Chemocatalytic processes can also be used to arrive to both drop in and new bioplastic precursors. In fact, such processes are emerging in an effort to tackle challenges related with fermentation.
This Special Issue, entitled “Catalysis for Monomers and Polymers from Renewable Resources,” will include research papers and reviews, reflecting the state-of-the-art developments in the field of heterogenous catalysis, homogenous catalysis and biocatalysis in monomer production from biomass, and also catalysis in biobased polymer synthesis.
Prof. Dr. George Z. PapageorgiouDr. Angelos Lappas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Renewable resources
- Monomers from biomass
- 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid
- Sustainable polymers
- Heterogenous catalysis
- Homogenous catalysis
- Biocatalysis
- Green materials
- Biorefinery
- Benign synthesis of polymers
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