A review of flame retardant polypropylene fibres

By Sheng Zhang, A. Horrocks. 2003

562 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. E. Weil
2. S. Levchik
3. A. Horrocks
4. B. Schartel
5. A. Morgan

In Polymers and Plastics

1. A. Horrocks
2. S. Levchik
3. E. Weil
4. C. Papaspyrides
5. P. Kiliaris
6. B. Schartel
7. A. Morgan
8. J. Alongi

Citations in the corpus

• Flame‐retardant unsaturated polyester resin incorporating nanoclays (2006, background): “In addition to transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which was not available for this study, the characterisation of nanocomposite structures in a polymer can be identified by monitoring the position, shape and intensity of the basal spacing in the lower 2θ region (2-10).”
• Polymer/layered silicate (clay) nanocomposites: An overview of flame retardancy (2010, background): “Particularly, organic phosphorus-based ubstances have long been used to endow styrenic polyers with fire resistance [134].”
• Flame Retardants in Commercial Use or Development for Textiles (2008, background): “A detailed review in 2003 by Zhang and Horrocks [93] covers several decades of research efforts to flame retard polypropylene by melt additives or grafting which have led to little practical success.”
• Flame Retardants in Commercial Use or Development for Polyolefins (2008, background): “A review directed to polypropylene fibers but actually covering polyolefin flame retardancy quite broadly was published by Zhang and Horrocks (2003) [4].”
• Flame retardant challenges for textiles and fibres: New chemistry versus innovatory solutions (2011, background): “, UK) and pentaerythritol phosphate (NH1197, Chemtura), the hindered amine stabiliser NOR 116 (Ciba) [24] and the bromine-containing tris (tribromopentyl) phosphate (FR 372, ICL , Israel) and tris(tribromophenyl)cyanurate, FR 245 (ICL, Israel) species.”