Fire retardant polymers : recent developments and opportunities

By S. Bourbigot, S. Duquesne. 2007

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics

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In Materials Chemistry

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• Thermal stability and flammability characteristics of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) composites blended with a phenyl phosphonate-intercalated layered double hydroxide (LDH), melamine polyphosphate and/or boric acid (2009, background): “The production of water vapor, the presence of phosphate, and formation of metal oxides during the thermal degradation of the layered double hydroxide may serve to improve the thermal stability of EVA/MgAl–PPh blends via: (i) cooling of the specimen environment by water vapor, (ii) formation of char”
• Flammability of Natural Fiber-reinforced Composites and Strategies for Fire Retardancy: A Review (2010, background): “mineral fillers [55,56] and flame retardants for specific polymers such as polyolefins [57], polystyrenes [58], and poly vinyl chlorides [59].”
• Graphene-based flame retardants: a review (2016, background): “In order to avoid or reduce the flammability of polymers and expand their application, researchers have developed many strategies, such as fire retardant coating technology, flame retardant filler technology, fire retardant solution soaking and chemical grafting flame retardant technology [3, 6, 7].”
• Recent developments in the fire retardancy of polymeric materials (2013, background): “if used in polypropylene and polyamides, a V-rating is achieved by extinguishing the fire [8, 10, 125].”
• The Future of Flame Retardant Polymers – Unmet Needs and Likely New Approaches (2019, background): “mechanism has been well proven to date, and these types of flame retardants have been well studied to date.(28,29) Because of the ability of intumescent coatings to act as such good thermal insulators, they are not only used as flame retardants for polymers, but also used extensively in paints to pr”