{"id":103998,"date":"2022-02-07T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=103998"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:40:50","slug":"champion-consortium-reaches-milestone-in-safe-and-circular-material-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/champion-consortium-reaches-milestone-in-safe-and-circular-material-development\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMPION consortium reaches milestone in safe and circular material development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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CHAMPION<\/a> sets out to develop mild methods to convert safe-by-design bio-based chemical building blocks into novel polymeric materials. The selected chemistry to achieve this is called aza-Michael addition. This chemistry is fast even at room temperature, and it is very atom-efficient; no co-products are liberated during polymerisation (\u2018click chemistry\u2019). Unlike well-known industrial click polymerisation systems such as those based on isocyanates and epoxides, the polymerisation technology targeted in CHAMPION<\/a> stays away from toxic and unsustainable ingredients, by discarding chemicals and materials that receive unfavourable scores in toxicity assessments. In addition, the consortium prioritises only those aza-Michael polymer materials that are circular, i.e. recyclable back to monomers, and\/or biodegradable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evaluation of material performance is an integral part of the project. Applications of interest for the consortium\u2019s industrial end-users range from flexible and rigid coatings and structural adhesives to water-soluble home-care ingredients. For coatings and adhesives, an important requirement is sufficient hardness of the product. In initial screenings of aza-Michael polymerizations on lab-scale, this proved to be challenging; most of the cured products were relatively soft rubber-like materials. However, the CHAMPION<\/a> team is happy to announce that they have now been able to demonstrate that, by shifting to ingredients able to provide a more densely cross-linked polymer network, materials with good hardness could be prepared. The formulations will now be further evaluated by participating industrial end-users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHAMPION sets out to develop mild methods to convert safe-by-design bio-based chemical building blocks into novel polymeric materials. The selected chemistry to achieve this is called aza-Michael addition. This chemistry is fast even at room temperature, and it is very atom-efficient; no co-products are liberated during polymerisation (\u2018click chemistry\u2019). Unlike well-known industrial click polymerisation systems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Researchers of the CHAMPION project have successfully prepared a first set of innovative bio-based materials with promising properties for coatings, adhesives and home care ingredients","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,5847,10416,10408,12679,5817],"supplier":[8031,11909,7768],"class_list":["post-103998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioplastics","tag-circulareconomy","tag-greenchemistry","tag-recyclability","tag-research","supplier-bbi-joint-undertaking","supplier-bio-based-industries-consortium-bic","supplier-horizon-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103998"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=103998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}