Synthesis and characterization of monomers and polymers from itaconic and levulinic acids and their interactions with vegetable oils

• Grant number: 13/02663-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Alessandro Gandini
• Grantee: Talita Martins Lacerda
• Supervisor: Michael A. R. Meier
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/00124-9 - Synthesis and thermal-reversible polymerization of macromonomers derived from vegetal oil and furan., BP.PD

Abstract

The possible shortage of crude oil and the unpredictable increase in its prices have led to an impressive expansion of initiatives in the last decades dedicated to the search of alternative sources of chemicals and polymers. Thus, in view of the wide availability of vegetable and animal biomass and the number of excellent features offered from it, this project aims to use levulinic and itaconic acids, both easily obtained from plant biomass, as feedstock for the production of monomers and polymers. This project is directly related to the postdoctoral project currently developed in Brazil, since the macromonomers obtained from vegetable oils will be, at a later stage, associated with polymers derived from levulinic and itaconic acids by polycondensation and crosslinking reactions. The project described herein will be developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), in the laboratory headed by Prof. Dr. Michael A. R. Meier, a researcher of worldwide notoriety in the development of new polymers from renewable resources. Monomers and polymers will be obtained from methods in which Prof. Meier has extensive experience, and characterized by the convenient techniques. It is important to emphasize that levulinic has never been studied with this approach, enabling the development of original materials with interesting applications. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

WINKLER, MATTHIAS; LACERDA, TALITA M.; MACK, FELIX; MEIER, MICHAEL A. R.. Renewable Polymers from Itaconic Acid by Polycondensation and Ring-Opening-Metathesis Polymerization. MACROMOLECULES, v. 48, n. 5, p. 1398-1403, MAR 10 2015. (13/02663-7)

GANDINI, ALESSANDRO; LACERDA, TALITA M.. From monomers to polymers from renewable resources: Recent advances. PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE, v. 48, p. 1-39, SEP 2015. (13/02663-7, 12/00124-9)