Adhesives and methods for their manufacture and use

1. A composition comprising an adhesive copolymer, wherein the adhesive copolymer is a reaction product of a first mixture and a monosaccharide monomer,

wherein the first mixture is a reaction product of a diol monomer and a dicarboxylic monomer,

wherein the dicarboxylic monomer and the diol monomer in the first mixture and the monosaccharide monomer are at a mole percent ratio of the dicarboxylic monomer to a total of the monosaccharide monomer and the diol monomer of about 85:15 to about 65:35, and

wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least one dicarboxyl moiety including an epoxy group.

2. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the monosaccharide monomer is a pentose (C5) sugar, a hexose (C6) sugar, or a combination thereof.

3. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the monosaccharide monomer comprises one or more of the following: allose, altrose, glucose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose, psicose, fructose, sorbose, tagatose, arabinose, lyxose, ribose, xylose, ribulose, and xylulose.

4. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer is a dicarboxylic acid monomer.

5. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer is an α,ω-dicarboxylic acid monomer.

6. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer is a dicarboxylic acid ester monomer.

7. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer is a dicarboxylic acid methyl ester monomer.

8. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer is an α,ω-dicarboxylic acid methyl ester monomer.

9. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer comprises one or more of the following: a dicarboxylic dimethyl ester, a dicarboxylic di-ethyl ester, a dicarboxylic dipropyl ester, a dicarboxylic di-isopropyl ester, a dicarboxylic dibutyl ester, a dicarboxylic di-isobutyl ester, a dicarboxylic methyl-ethyl ester, a dicarboxylic methyl-propyl ester, a dicarboxylic methyl-isopropyl ester, a dicarboxylic methyl-butyl ester, a dicarboxylic methyl-isobutyl ester, a dicarboxylic ethyl-propyl ester, a dicarboxylic ethyl-isopropyl ester, a dicarboxylic ethyl-butyl ester, a dicarboxylic ethyl-isobutyl ester, a dicarboxylic propyl-isopropyl ester, a dicarboxylic propyl-butyl ester, a dicarboxylic propyl-isobutyl ester, a dicarboxylic isopropyl-butyl ester, a dicarboxylic isopropyl-isobutyl ester, and a dicarboxylic butyl-isobutyl ester.

10. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer comprises a linear chain of “n” carbon atoms, where “n” is an integer of about 12 to about 34.

11. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer comprises a linear chain of “n” carbon atoms, where “n” is an integer of about 16 to about 20.

12. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the dicarboxylic monomer comprises a linear chain of “n” carbon atoms, where “n” is 18.

13. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least one monosaccharide moiety crosslinked to a plurality of dicarboxyl moieties.

14. The composition of claim 1 wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least one dicarboxyl moiety cross-linked at a first carboxyl end to a first monosaccharide moiety and at a second carboxyl end to a second monosaccharide moiety.

15. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least one dicarboxyl moiety cross-linked at a carboxyl end to one of the following groups: an O-aliphatic group, an O-aromatic group, an S-aliphatic group, an S-aromatic group, an N-primary amine, and an N-secondary amine.

16. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least one dicarboxyl moiety cross-linked at a carboxyl end to one of the following: a methoxy group, an ethoxy group, a butoxy group, an isobutoxy group, a propoxy group, an isopropoxy group, a phenoxy group, a methyl sulfide group, an ethyl sulfide group, a butyl sulfide group, an isobutyl sulfide group, a propyl sulfide group, an isobutyl sulfide group, a phenyl sulfide group, a methyl amine group, an ethyl amine group, a butyl amine group, an isobutyl amine group, a propyl amine group, an isopropyl amine group, an N,N-dimethyl amine group, an N,N-di-ethyl amine group, an N,N-dibutyl amine group, an N,N-di-isobutyl amine group, an N,N-dipropyl amine group, and an N,N-di-isopropyl amine group.

17. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises at least a first dicarboxyl moiety cross-linked at a first carboxyl end to a first hydroxyl group of a diol moiety, and at least a second dicarboxyl moiety cross-linked at a first carboxyl end to a second hydroxyl group of the diol moiety.

18. The composition of claim 17 , wherein the diol moiety comprises one or more of the following: an octane-1,3-diol moiety, a cis-oct-5-ene-1,3-diol moiety, an isosorbide moiety, a 1,3-propanediol moiety, a 1,2-propanediol moiety, and a 1,4-butanediol moiety.

19. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises about 1.2 to about 3.2 dicarboxyl moieties cross-linked to a single monosaccharide moiety.

20. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises about 2.0 to about 2.6 dicarboxyl moieties cross-linked to a single monosaccharide moiety.

21. The composition of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive copolymer comprises 2.5 dicarboxyl moieties cross-linked to a single monosaccharide moiety.