@article{10272/23018,
year = {2022},
month = {3},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23018},
abstract = {The current great concern about plastic pollution opens up opportunities for the production of more sustainable polymers. Inverse vulcanization has emerged as a novel procedure to obtain inorganic-organic hybrid polymeric materials. Sulfur is attained as a by-product of oil refining production and makes inverse vulcanization a sustainable process due to a large amount of sulfur without a useful life. In previous studies, vegetable oils were used as a comonomer with sulfur to form copolymers based on sustainable raw material. Nevertheless, compounds from agro-wastes, could be a third comonomer that improves new copolymers bio-applications. In this study, a new series of copolymers with castor oil as vegetable oil and sulfur was formulated by adding a third compound
bearing double bonds or heteroatoms. A study was conducted to assess the antimicrobial capacity and antioxidant activity of the copolymers obtained to demonstrate the benefits of adding a new comonomer to improve their bioactivity.},
organization = {The authors are grateful to the Regional Government of Andalusia, Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento and University of Huelva (Project UHU-1257728).
The authors also want to express their acknowledgement of Fundación Cátedra Cepsa for kindly supplying the sulfur.},
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {Combining vegetable oils and bioactive compounds via inverse vulcanization for antioxidant and antimicrobial materials},
doi = {10.1016/j.polymertesting.2022.107546},
author = {Cubero Cardoso, Juan and Gómez-Villegas, Patricia and Santos Martín, María and Sayago Gómez, Ana and Fernández Recamales, María Ángeles and Fernández de Villarán San Juan, Rubén and Cuadri Vega, Antonio Abad and Martín Alfonso, José Enrique and Borja Padilla, Rafael and González Fermoso, Fernando and León Bañares, Rosa María and Urbano Baena, Juan},
}