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A coating from nature
For almost a century, petrochemical-based monomers like acrylates have been widely used as the basis for coatings, resins, and paints. The development of sustainable alternatives, integrating the principles of green chemistry in starting material, synthesis process, and product function, offers trem...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33328241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe0026 |
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author | Hermens, Johannes G. H. Freese, Thomas van den Berg, Keimpe J. van Gemert, Rogier Feringa, Ben L. |
author_facet | Hermens, Johannes G. H. Freese, Thomas van den Berg, Keimpe J. van Gemert, Rogier Feringa, Ben L. |
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description | For almost a century, petrochemical-based monomers like acrylates have been widely used as the basis for coatings, resins, and paints. The development of sustainable alternatives, integrating the principles of green chemistry in starting material, synthesis process, and product function, offers tremendous challenges for science and society. Here, we report on alkoxybutenolides as a bio-based alternative for acrylates and the formation of high-performance coatings. Starting from biomass-derived furfural and an environmentally benign photochemical conversion using visible light and oxygen in a flow reactor provides the alkoxybutenolide monomers. This is followed by radical (co)polymerization, which results in coatings with tunable properties for applications on distinct surfaces like glass or plastic. The performance is comparable to current petrochemical-derived industrial coatings. |
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spelling | pubmed-77440852021-01-04 A coating from nature Hermens, Johannes G. H. Freese, Thomas van den Berg, Keimpe J. van Gemert, Rogier Feringa, Ben L. Sci Adv Research Articles For almost a century, petrochemical-based monomers like acrylates have been widely used as the basis for coatings, resins, and paints. The development of sustainable alternatives, integrating the principles of green chemistry in starting material, synthesis process, and product function, offers tremendous challenges for science and society. Here, we report on alkoxybutenolides as a bio-based alternative for acrylates and the formation of high-performance coatings. Starting from biomass-derived furfural and an environmentally benign photochemical conversion using visible light and oxygen in a flow reactor provides the alkoxybutenolide monomers. This is followed by radical (co)polymerization, which results in coatings with tunable properties for applications on distinct surfaces like glass or plastic. The performance is comparable to current petrochemical-derived industrial coatings. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7744085/ /pubmed/33328241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe0026 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Hermens, Johannes G. H. Freese, Thomas van den Berg, Keimpe J. van Gemert, Rogier Feringa, Ben L. A coating from nature |
title | A coating from nature |
title_full | A coating from nature |
title_fullStr | A coating from nature |
title_full_unstemmed | A coating from nature |
title_short | A coating from nature |
title_sort | coating from nature |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33328241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe0026 |
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