作者：Yangyang Yan, Jiang Wu, You Wang, Xinzi Fang, Zhongkai Wang,* Guang Yang,* and Zan Hua*
关键字：plant oils, green chemistry, renewable, RAFT, block copolymers, adhesives
论文来源：期刊
具体来源：ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
发表时间：2021年

Biomass-based polymeric materials have recently garnered a lot of attention from both academic and industrial realms, owing to their important roles for addressing environmental issues and achieving sustainable developments. As one of the cheapest and most widely available biomass feedstock, plant oils are promising to produce polymeric materials for replacing petroleum-based counterparts. However, there is lack of a green and highly effffective method to prepare outstanding plant oil-based polymeric materials, limiting their potential applicability. In this work, surfactant-free RAFT-mediated emulsion polymerization was explored for the fabrication of plant oil-based ethanol aqueous adhesives. A series of plant oil-based ethanol aqueous adhesives

have been successfully fabricated by introducing thyminecontaining monomers to tackify the adhesives. The obtained ethanol aqueous adhesives showcase outstanding adhesive properties

for distinct substrates and tunable adhesive performance upon UV irradiation. This work highlights that surfactant-free RAFTmediated emulsion polymerization is a straightforward and feasible approach to fabricate prominent polymeric materials including adhesives or coatings from biomass feedstock such as plant oils.