Modified Vegetable Oil Based Additives as a Future Polymeric Material—Review

Abstract

Polymeric materials from renewable resources have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. The development and utilization of vegetable oils for polymeric materials are currently in the spotlight of the polymer and chemical industry, as they are the largest renewable platform due to their universal wide availability, ingrained biodegradability, low cost, and excellent environmen-tal aspects (i.e., low ecotoxicity and low toxicity toward humans). These excellent natural charac-teristics are now being taken advantage of in research and development, with vegetable oil de-rived polymers/polymeric materials/composites being used in numerous applications including paints and coatings, adhesives, and nanocomposites. The aim of this review paper is to give a fun-damental description of the various vegetable oil applications in polymer materials and its recent developments. Particular emphasis will be placed on study and main application of triglyceride based additive for polymer and to give the reader an insight into the main developments is dis-cussed.