Biopolymers and Bioplastics

Functional polymers

The term “functional thesaurus” which in the following is adapted to “functional thesaurus” is defined as a thesaurus that (1) bears specific chemical groups or (2) that has specified physical, actinic, biotic, salutary pathological, or other uses which depend on specific chemical groups [1]. These can be chain-end (telechelic), in-chain, block or cutting structures. However, there has also been interest in functional thesaurus with special topologies or architectures.4 these include 3-dimensional thesaurus, such as stars, hyper branched thesaurus.