Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters

Biorenewable feedstocks allow the design of polymers with targeted properties and functionalities. Here the authors report a series of high glass transition temperature sugar-based polyesters and investigate how substituents affect their thermal properties.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaopeng Yu, Junteng Jia, Shu Xu, Ka Un Lao, Maria J. Sanford, Ramesh K. Ramakrishnan, Sergei I. Nazarenko, Thomas R. Hoye, Geoffrey W. Coates, Robert A. DiStasio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05269-3

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