Samy Madbouly is a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He served as a senior research scientist at the School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, and at the Center for Biomaterial Development, Institute of Polymer Research, GKSS, Germany. He also worked as assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University and School of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Senior Polymer Engineer at Schlumberger, USA.Chaoqun Zhang is a Full Professor at the College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, China. Prof. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 from Iowa State University, USA. Following his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota from 2014 to 2015, and at Texas A&M University, USA, from 2015 to 2016, before returning to China.

• 1 Introduction2 Resources of plant phenols3 Microbial and enzymatic methods for phenolic production4 Thiol-ene polymer based on plant phenols5 Polyimine thermosets based on plant phenols6 Epoxy resins based on plant phenols7 Polyurethane based on plant phenols8 Polyesters based on plant phenols9 Polycatechol-based on plant phenols10 Recyclable and self-healing plant phenol-based polymers11 Plant phenol-based shape memory polymers12 Applications of plant phenol-based polymers