Converting biorenewable feedstocks into polymers not only reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, but also opens up multiple opportunities to design polymers with targeted properties and functionalities. In this work, we report a series of high glass transition temperature polyesters derived from sugar-based furan derivatives as well as a joint experimental and theoretical study on their structure-property relationship. On the basis of these findings, we propose several simple and intuitive design principles for how Tg values can be tuned in a wide class of synthetic polymers.

Less is more: An unexpected structure - property relationship in furan-based sustainable polymers

256th National Meeting (2018)

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