1st Edition

Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials A Handbook

Edited By Yuan Hu, Xin Wang Copyright 2020
    350 Pages
    by CRC Press

    350 Pages 121 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press



    Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field, from basic properties and mechanisms of action for flame retardants to emerging methods, materials, and industrial applications.





    With over 120 black and white images, Hu and Wang cover the latest in the development of novel polymer nanocomposites such as graphene, CNTs, LDHs, POSS, and techniques such as layer-by-layer assembly. These expert authors also include discussions on the important flame-retardant systems based on phosphorus, silicon, and boron. In doing so, they highlight the use of flame-retardants in varying industries, for example, construction, textiles, and aviation.





    This comprehensive handbook is an essential read for students and academics of physics with a particular interest in flame-retardant materials. It would also be recommended for professionals within the materials science and engineering fields. 





    Contents



    Preface......................................................................................................................vii



    Editors ....................................................................................................................... ix



    Contributors ............................................................................................................. xi



    Section i Fundamentals



    1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 3



    Yuan Hu and Xin Wang



    2 Mechanisms and Modes of Action in Flame Retardancy of Polymers ...........13



    Yuan Hu and Yan Zhang



    3 Fire Testing for the Development of Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials ........ 35



    Bernhard Schartel and Katharina Kebelmann



    Section ii Material Modification, Assembly, and Design



    4 Phosphorus-Containing Flame Retardants: Synthesis, Properties, and



    Mechanisms ..................................................................................................... 59



    Qiang Yao and Charles A. Wilkie



    5 Recent Advances in Silicon-Containing Flame Retardants ........................... 77



    Weiyi Xing and Junling Wang



    6 Recent Advances in Boron-Based Flame Retardants ..................................... 97



    Kelvin K. Shen



    7 Layer-by-Layer Assembly: A Novel Flame-Retardant Solution to



    Polymeric Materials ....................................................................................... 119



    Giulio Malucelli



    Section iii Flame Retardant Polymer nanocomposites



    8 Use of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers for Multifunctional Flame



    Retardant Polymer Composites ..................................................................... 137



    Alexander B. Morgan



    9 Graphene/Polymer Composites: A New Class of Fire Retardant.................. 151



    Xin Wang and Wenwen Guo



    10 Functionalized Layered Nanomaterials towards Flame Retardant



    Polymer Nanocomposites ............................................................................... 181



    Ye-Tang Pan and De-Yi Wang



    11 The Use of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane in Flame Retardant



    Polymer Composites .......................................................................................213



    Lei Song and Wei Cai



    Section iV Applications



    12 Flame Retarded Polymer Foams for Construction Insulating Materials .... 235



    Zhengzhou Wang, Xiaoyan Li, and Lei Liu



    13 Recent Advances in Flame Retardant Textiles ............................................. 259



    Bin Fei and Bin Yu



    14 Flame Retardant Polymer Materials Design for Wire and Cable



    Applications ............................................................................................ 285



    Christian Lagreve, Laurent Ferry, and Jose-Marie Lopez-Cuesta



    15 Flame Retardant Epoxy Resin Formulations for Fiber-Reinforced



    Composites ..................................................................................................... 311



    Manfred Döring, Sebastian Eibl, Lara Greiner, and Hauke Lengsfeld



    Index ............................................................................................................................................ 32

    Biography



    Yuan Hu is head of the Department of Safety Science and Engineering of the University of Science and



    Technology of China (USTC) and Director of the Institute of Fire Safety Materials of USTC. He obtained



    his PhD from USTC in 1997. Prof. Hu has done research on fire safety materials for more than 20 years.



    His main research area includes: polymer/inorganic compound nanocomposites, new flame retardants



    and their flame retardant polymer, synthesis and properties of inorganic nanomaterials, combustion,



    and decomposition mechanism of polymer. Prof. Hu has published more than 400 papers (Science



    Citation Index) in research areas covering the range of fire safety of materials. Moreover, more than 40



    invention patents have been authorized.



     



    Xin Wang is an associate professor in the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).



    He earned his PhD in Safety Science and Engineering from the USTC in 2013. Dr. Wang leads the high



    performance polymer nanocomposite group, setting technical direction and building partnerships with



    both industrial and academic communities, in order to promote the development of high performance



    flame retardant polymeric materials. Dr. Wang’s research interests focus on synthesis of novel halogenfree



    flame retardants and preparation of layered nanomaterials and their use in flame retardant polymer



    nanocomposites. Dr. Wang has published more than 70 papers in the peer-reviewed international journals



    (citations 1980, H index = 36) in the field of flame retardant polymeric materials.