Studies towards the synthesis of novel, renewable monomers sourced from terpenes

The multitude of commercially available plastics, ubiquitous in modern society, with uses from food contains to surgical tools, is vast. However, the major feedstock for these materials is crude oil, which accounts for 7% of oil consumption worldwide – a figure that is predicted to rise substantiall...

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Main Author: Smith, Sean
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/63517/