(Bio)degradable Polymer Nanocomposites for Environmental Protection

Musioł, Marta; Jurczyk, Sebastian; Sikorska, Wanda; Rydz, Joanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10614-0_42-1

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“…The demand for (bio)degradable polymers that are designed to provide materials for timelimited applications is still growing. Degradation has a significant effect on the properties of polymer materials and therefore the perfect (bio)degradable polymer material should match the mechanical properties and the time of degradation to the needs of the application [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. As the most representative example of environmentally relevant polymeric materials, aliphatic and aliphatic-aromatic polyesters play a predominant role as (bio)degradable, biocompatible and bioresorbable polymers due to the presence of potentially hydrolysable ester linkage (-C(O)O-).…”

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Polymers Tailored for Controlled (Bio)degradation Through End-Group and In-Chain Functionalization

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Kowalczuk

2017

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Background: Currently, polymers can be created with specific properties that are tailored to a wide range of applications from medical to everyday products as packaging. There are different techniques to prepare novel polymer materials with various architectures and specific groups via a variety of reaction mechanisms of different complexity. End-group modification of polymers is a powerful tool for tailoring polymer properties. Objective: The review provides a brief description of the functional moieties and an outline of synthetic strategies used for tailoring the (bio)degradable polymer properties by end-group and in-chain functionalization. Conclusion: The contemporary synthetic strategies used in tailoring the (bio)degradable polymer properties by the end-group and in-chain functionalization demonstrate the importance of the relation between their subtle molecular structure, properties and function. When the development of (bio)degradable polymers is in its infancy the most crucial features are concentrated on the effect of macromolecular architecture, new monomer systems, polymerization mechanisms and different polymerization techniques on final (bio)degradable properties. Significant efforts have been directed towards the type of functional moieties and their influence on the degradation manner. Presented methods should help to design novel biodegradable polymeric materials and to avoid failures of the commercial products manufactured from them.

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