Clean Routes to Sustainable Polymers

The first experimental chapter of this thesis, Chapter 2, reports on the use of Novozym 435 as a catalyst for the synthesis of acrylamide initiated aliphatic polyesters by enzymatic ring-opening polymerisation. N-Hydroxyethyl acrylamide was utilised as a functional initiator to overcome transesterif...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lentz, J. C.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76906/