title: Vegetable-oil-based polymers as future polymeric biomaterials.
abstract: Vegetable oils are one of the most important classes of bio-resources for producing polymeric materials. The main components of vegetable oils are triglycerides - esters of glycerol with three fatty acids. Several highly reactive sites including double bonds, allylic positions and the ester groups are present in triglycerides from which a great variety of polymers with different structures and functionalities can be prepared. Vegetable-oil-based polyurethane, polyester, polyether and polyolefin are the four most important classes of polymers, many of which have excellent biocompatibilities and unique properties including shape memory. In view of these characteristics, vegetable-oil-based polymers play an important role in biomaterials and have attracted increasing attention from the polymer community. Here we comprehensively review recent developments in the preparation of vegetable-oil-based polyurethane, polyester, polyether and polyolefin, all of which have potential applications as biomaterials.
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
authors.forename: Shida
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Institute and Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zhiguo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China; Synergetic Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: spzhang@home.ipe.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Songping
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D010938:Plant Oils; D011108:Polymers
keywords: Biomaterial; Polyester; Polyether; Polyurethane; Vegetable-oil