Open Journal of Organic Polymer Materials, 2015, 5, 1-22 Published Online January 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojopm http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojopm.2015.51001 How to cite this paper: Samarth, N.B. and Mahanwar, P.A. (2015) Modified Vegetable Oil Based Additives as a Future Po- lymeric Material—Review. Open Journal of Organic Polymer Materials, 5, 1-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojopm.2015.51001 Modified Vegetable Oil Based Additives as a Future Polymeric Material—Review Nikesh B. Samarth, Prakash A. Mahanwar Department Polymer and Surface Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India Email: n.b.samarth@gmail.com , pmahanwar@yahoo.com Received 26 August 2014; revised 19 September 2014; accepted 28 October 2014 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Polymeric materials from renewable resources have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. The development and utilization of vegetable oils for polymeric materials are currently in the spotlight of the polymer and chemical industry, as they are the largest renewable platform due to their universal wide availability, ingrained biodegradability, low cost, and excellent environmen- tal aspects (i.e., low ecotoxicity and low toxicity toward humans). These excellent natural charac- teristics are now being taken advantage of in research and development, with vegetable oil de- rived polymers/polymeric materials/composites being used in numerous applications including paints and coatings, adhesives, and nanocomposites. The aim of this review paper is to give a fun- damental description of the various vegetable oil applications in polymer materials and its recent developments. Particular emphasis will be placed on study and main application of triglyceride based additive for polymer and to give the reader an insight into the main developments is dis- cussed. Keywords Vegetable Oil, Additives, Renewable Material, Polymer, Stabilizer, Plasticizer, Lubricant 1. Introduction Vegetables or plant oils represent a renewable resource that can be used as reliable starting material to access new products with a wide array of structural and functional variations. The ample availability and the relatively low cost make plant oils an industrially attractive raw material for the plastics industry. Already for a long time, plant oils and their derivatives have been used by polymer chemists due to their re- newable nature, world wide availability at relatively low price, and their wide application possibilities. In recent year, there has been a large amount of demand for plant oils as an alternative resource for the production of ad-