Basic design, structure of present biobased polyesters (IMAGE)

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Basic design, structure of present biobased polyesters

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Basic structure, framework in the present biobased polyesters derived from plant oil and glucose (in this study). The present polymers can be easily decomposed to the monomer units by chemical recycle simply using treating with alcohols (called catalytic transesterification).

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