Cubero Cardoso, JuanGómez-Villegas, PatriciaSantos Martín, MaríaSayago Gómez, AnaFernández Recamales, María ÁngelesFernández de Villarán San Juan, RubénCuadri Vega, Antonio AbadMartín Alfonso, José EnriqueBorja Padilla, RafaelGonzález Fermoso, FernandoLeón Bañares, Rosa MaríaUrbano Baena, Juan2024-01-302024-01-302022-03Cubero-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.2022.1075460142-9418https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23018The 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.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Inverse vulcanizationBioactive compoundsValorizationPolysulfideCopolymersjournal article10.1016/j.polymertesting.2022.107546open access23 Química2301 Química Analítica2302 Bioquímica2303 Química Inorgánica