Bio-based thermoplastic and thermosets polymer

authored by

Hans Josef Endres

Abstract

Bioplastics are not a completely new kind of material, but rather a rediscovered class of materials within the big familiar group of materials known as plastics. The first polymer materials synthesized by humans, for example, caseins, gelatine, shellac, celluloid, cellophane, linoleum, rubber, and so on, were all bio-based, that is, based on renewable materials or on transformed natural materials. At that time there were simply no petrochemical materials available. Nowadays these first bio-based plastics have been almost completely displaced from the middle of the last century onward by petrochemical polymer materials apart from a few exceptions (cellulose and rubber-based materials).

External Organisation(s)

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover (HsH)

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

139-166

No. of pages

28

Publication date

01.01.2017

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering, General Materials Science

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315152967 (Access: Closed)