ArticleAccounts of materials research2025
Toward Sustainable Materials: From Lignocellulosic Biomass to High-Performance Polymers.
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- ATRP depolymerization of lignin-derived polymethacrylates.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Scaling Up Is Not the Same but Bigger: Overcoming (Some) Limitations in Enzymatic Decarboxylations in Rotating Bed Reactors in Deep Eutectic Solvents.Organic process research & development · 2026Article
- Ligand-Wise Stripping Dictates Metal Ensemble Catalysts for Selective Oxidation of Biomass-Derived 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural.Nano-micro letters · 2026Article
- Special Issue "Valorization of Lignocellulosic Biomass".International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Molar-Scale Phenolic Acid Decarboxylation Using Thermostable Biocatalysts and Enzyme-Compatible Deep Eutectic Solvents.ChemSusChem · 2025Article
- The Effects of Biomass Combustion Ash and Lignin on the Properties of Cement Mortars and Their Environmental Impact.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Lignocellulosic biomass is an ideal feedstock for the next generation of sustainable, high-performance, polymeric materials. Although lignin is a highly available and low-cost source of natural aromatics, it is commonly burned for heat or disposed of as waste. The use of lignin for new materials introduces both challenges and opportunities with respect to incumbent petrochemical-based compounds. These considerations are derived from two fundamental aspects of lignin: its recalcitrant/heterogeneous nature and aromatic methoxy substituents. This Account highlights four key efforts from the Epps group and collaborators that established innovative methods/processes to synthesize polymers from lignin deconstruction products to unlock application potential, with a particular focus on the polymerization of biobased monomer mixtures, development of structure-property-processing relationships for diverse feedstocks, functional benefits of methoxy substituents, and scalability of lignin deconstruction. First, lignin-derivable polymethacrylate systems were probed to investigate the polymerization behavior of methacrylate monomers and predict thermomechanical properties of polymers from monomer mixtures. Notably, the glass transition temperatures (
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