RT Journal Article
T1 Combining vegetable oils and bioactive compounds via inverse vulcanization for antioxidant and antimicrobial materials
A1 Cubero Cardoso, Juan
A1 Gómez-Villegas, Patricia
A1 Santos Martín, María
A1 Sayago Gómez, Ana
A1 Fernández Recamales, María Ángeles
A1 Fernández de Villarán San Juan, Rubén
A1 Cuadri Vega, Antonio Abad
A1 Martín Alfonso, José Enrique
A1 Borja Padilla, Rafael
A1 González Fermoso, Fernando
A1 León Bañares, Rosa María
A1 Urbano Baena, Juan
AB 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 compoundbearing 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.
PB Elsevier
SN 0142-9418
YR 2022
FD 2022-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23018
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23018
LA eng
NO Cubero-Cardoso, J., Gómez‐Villegas, P., Santos-Martín, M., Sayago, A., Fernández-Recamales, Á., Fernández de Villarán, R., Cuadri, A. A., Martín-Alfonso, J. E., Borja, R., Fermoso, F. G., León, R., & Urbano, J. (2022). Combining vegetable oils and bioactive compounds via inverse vulcanization for antioxidant and antimicrobial materials. In Polymer Testing (Vol. 109, p. 107546). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2022.107546
NO 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.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026