Abstract
This chapter describes vegetable oil-based epoxies. It deals with the importance, classification, materials and methods, modification, characterisation, curing, structure–property relationships and applications of vegetable oil-based epoxies. The chapter also includes a short review of these epoxies from various vegetable oils. It is shown that epoxidised vegetable oils are more useful as reactive diluents in producing low volatile organic compound (VOC) high solid epoxy systems and as plasticisers for poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), although a vegetable oil-based epoxy resin can act in the same way as a petroleum-based one. However, vegetable oil-based glycedyl ether epoxy resins are studied less than epoxidised vegetable oils.
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