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Recent developments in the fire retardancy of polymeric materials
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In this paper, the authors highlight the ecological impacts of using conventional flame retardants, thereby signifying the necessity to use eco-friendly agents, and explore the use of various nanofillers for this purpose, compare their performance with traditional systems, provide insights into different testing standards and combustion mechanisms, modelling aspects of the combustion behavior, and identify novel approaches that could be considered for meeting the fire safety standards with ecofriendly materials.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 488 citations till now.read more
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Thermally insulating and fire-retardant lightweight anisotropic foams based on nanocellulose and graphene oxide
Bernd Wicklein,Andraž Kocjan,German Salazar-Alvarez,Federico Carosio,Giovanni Camino,Markus Antonietti,Lennart Bergström +6 more
TL;DR: This work shows that freeze-casting suspensions of cellulose nanofibres, graphene oxide and sepiolite nanorods produces super-insulating, fire-retardant and strong anisotropic foams that perform better than traditional polymer-based insulating materials.
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Intumescence: Tradition versus novelty. A comprehensive review
TL;DR: The main concepts of intumescence are reviewed in this article, highlighting the novelties as well as the most significant results achieved in the flame retardancy of polymeric materials in the last 10-15 years.
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Carbon-family materials for flame retardant polymeric materials
TL;DR: In this article, a review of carbon-based materials for polymeric composites with flame retardant properties is presented, including graphite, graphene, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes as well as new emerging carbon forms (carbon nitride, carbon aerogels, etc).
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Fire-Retardant and Thermally Insulating Phenolic-Silica Aerogels.
Zhi-Long Yu,Ning Yang,Varvara Apostolopoulou-Kalkavoura,Bing Qin,Zhi-Yuan Ma,Wei-Yi Xing,Chan Qiao,Lennart Bergström,Markus Antonietti,Shu-Hong Yu +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a mechanically resilient organic/inorganic composite aerogel with a thermal conductivity significantly lower than expanded polystyrene and excellent fire resistance was reported, which can resist a high temperature flame without disintegration and prevents the temperature on the nonexposed side from increasing above the temperature critical for the collapse of reinforced concrete structures.
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Self-assembly of exfoliated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets and layered double hydroxide (LDH): Towards reducing fire hazards of epoxy.
TL;DR: Compared with MoS2, the addition of LDH/MoS2 hybrids endowed more excellent fire resistance to epoxy matrix, which was reflected by the significantly reduced peak heat release rate, total heat release and total smoke production.
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Flammability and thermal stability studies of polymer layered-silicate (clay) nanocomposites
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the research to date on the use of clays, dispersed at the nanometer level, in polymers for improving thermal stability and flammability is presented.
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Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions.
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Recent developments in the chemistry of halogen-free flame retardant polymers
Shuiyu Lu,Ian Hamerton +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of recent developments of the chemistry of halogen-free flame retardant polymers is presented in this article, along with their thermal stabilities and flame-retardant properties.
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New prospects in flame retardant polymer materials: From fundamentals to nanocomposites
TL;DR: The main flame retardant properties and tests used to describe fire behavior, together with the nature and modes of action of the most representative flame retardants and the synergistic effects that can be achieved by combining them are presented in this paper.
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