Bio-based one-component epoxy resin
Researchers have described a novel high-performance anticorrosive coating from an agro-industrial byproduct. In a recently conducted work, an epoxy resin produced from an agroindustrial byproduct, cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL), was used for manufacturing a one-component anticorrosive epoxy coating. CNSL-based epoxy resin (e-CNSL) was synthesised using a solvent-free methodology with performic acid generated in situ. The chemical structure of resin was evaluated and the curing parameters of the epoxy-phenol system with 1-methylimidazole (1-MIM) as an accelerator…