M.P. Luda di Cortemiglia

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent mechanistic studies of intumescent and halogen-based fire retardants is presented, where the parameters which affect the thermal behavior of polymeric materials, such as oxygen concentration, pressure and heating rate, are examined in relation to combustion conditions.

TL;DR: The experimental decrease in the degree of polymerisation of three poly(methyl methacrylate) samples heated at 320°C to different conversions to volatile products has been reproduced by simulating the thermal degradation process by Monte Carlo procedures as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Antimony trioxide and bismuth compounds added to chloroparaffin-polypropylene mixtures display different fire retardant "synergistic" mechanisms as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that bismuth-chlorine fire retardant "synergism" in mixtures of polypropylene with a chloroparaffin and Bismuth trioxide or bismith carbonate does not depend solely on the formation of BiCl 3 or BiOCl which occurs on heating these mixtures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal degradation behavior of bismuth carbonate-chloroparaffin-polypropylene ternary mixtures can mostly be accounted for on the basis of that of binary carbonate chloroparaaffin and polypropylene binary mixtures.