Polymeric materials, in particular PVC, can find various industrial utilizations thanks to the use of plasticizers added during their processing. The most famous applications include wires and cables, coatings, flooring, paintings, packaging… After some generalities concerning plasticization theories and the description of plasticized petro‐ and bio‐based polymers, this review details the well‐known different petro‐based plasticizers and more particularly phthalates which represent the most important category of PVC plasticizers. Owing to migration problems, impact on the human health and the environment, alternative candidates have been developed by researchers. Renewable resources and their wastes offer a large platform for the design of bio‐based plasticizers using polysaccharidic or lipidic structures. In an in‐depth analysis, the bio‐based plasticizer structures, their groups and substituents (ester groups, alkyl chains, aromatic rings…) are gathered and examined in order to be able to predict their plasticizing efficiency and design new molecular and macromolecular plasticizers from natural resources. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem.2016,54, 11–33

Besides usual coupling agents such as, for instance, silane, thiol, or carboxylic acids, phosphonated-based low molecular weight molecules and polymers appear of great interest for the modification of metal oxides. In such contexts, this Review is focused on the use of phosphonated derivatives for the surface treatment of metal oxides as such compounds are known to establish strong and stable links with inorganic phases. Functionalization of metal oxides leads to the obtaining of hybrid materials that can find applications in numerous fields. As a result, an interesting prospect will be to enhance the development of new hybrid materials in the future, especially bio-based ones.