Vegetable oil-based poly(ester amide)s

This chapter describes vegetable oil-based poly(ester amide)s. It deals with the importance, materials and methods, modification, characterisation, curing, structure–property relationships and applications of vegetable oil-based poly(ester amide)s. The chapter also includes a short review of such poly(ester amide)s from various vegetable oils. These poly(ester amide)s have additional advantages over analogous polyesters and can be used in different fields of applications such as paint, coating, adhesives and as binders for composites. Metal-containing poly(ester amide) thermoset resists rusting and corrosion and has potential for use in biomedicinal, antibacterial and active antifungal materials.