Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials A Handbook

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 ............................................................................................................................................ 329

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.