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Volume 8, Issue 6 (Suppl) J Bioremediat Biodegrad, an open access journal
ISSN:2155-6199 Biopolymers & Bioplastics 2017
October 19-20, 2017
October 19-20, 2017 San Francisco, USA
7th International Conference and Exhibition on
Biopolymers and Bioplastics
Precious metal nano composites based on autoxidized unsaturated plant oils/fatty acids
Baki Hazer
Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey
Unsaturated plant oils/fatty acids (UPOFA) have gained great interest as monomers to produce bio based polymers. UPOFA
is prone to react with air oxygen under daylight at room temperature which is called “ecofriendly autoxidation”. Eco-friendly
autoxidation process creates peroxide linkages in order to obtain unsaturated plant oil/fatty acid polymer that can initiate the free
radical copolymerization of some vinyl monomers. In addition, water soluble hydroxylated plant oil and nano composite materials
are synthesized using autoxidized unsaturated plant oils/fatty acids (AUPOFA). Autoxidized oleic acid macroperoxide initiated the
free radical polymerization of styrene in order to obtain carboxyl functionalized polystyrene for further modification reactions. In
this manner, polyethylene glycol with amine terminal groups were reacted with this polymer. Multi block amphiphilic copolymer was
used to stabilize inorganic nanoparticles to obtain organic/inorganic nanocomposites.
Catalyst effect of gold NPs is dramatically decreased the eco-friendly autoxidation time. For example the gold catalyzed autoxidized
soya oil polymer was obtained in ten days oxidation period while the autoxidation time takes nearly one month to obtain oxidized
soya oil polymer without Au NPs. Similarly, high fluorescent emission of silver/oxidized soybean oil polymer nanocomposite is
obtained. The nanocomposite solutions were analyzed by UV-VIS spectrometer in view of the surface plasmon resonance. TEM was
used to characterize size and shape of the metal nano particles embedded into the copolymer nano composites.
Biography
Baki Hazer received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the College of Chemical Engineering, University of Istanbul, in 1972 and his PhD
degree from Karadeniz Technical University, in 1978. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry and TÜBİTAK joint research grant at the Liverpool University in
the United Kingdom. He received the NATO Collaborative Research Grant at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst in 1995–1997, and was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the same department in 1992–1993. He was a Visiting Scientist at The University of Akron in 2007.
He had an honorary membership by the Turkish Chemical Society in May 2005. He is a Member of the Turkish Chemical Society and Member of the Editorial
Boards of Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research (CRTER). He is specialized in soybean
oil polymers and post polymerization reactions, nanocomposite synthesis, bacterial polyesters, block and graft copolymers, macro monomeric initiators, controlled
leaving polymerization, and thermoresponsive polymers.
Baki Hazer, J Bioremediat Biodegrad 2017, 8:6 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6199-C1-011