Synthesis and characterization of novel renewable tung oil-based UV-curable active monomers and bio-based copolymers

With the rapid development of industry and the growing shortage of fossil energy, tung oil has attracted much attention of researchers because of its environment-friendly and renewable advantages. In this work, we successfully synthesized two kinds of tung-oil-derived renewable UV-curable active monomers, tung-acid-maleic tri-acrylate (TOAH) and tung-maleic tetra-acrylate (TMPG). 1H NMR and FT-IR results collectively revealed that the targeted...