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Bio-based Flame-Retardant Technology for Polymeric Materials

  • 1st Edition - August 19, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Yuan Hu, Hafezeh Nabipour, Xin Wang
  • Language: English

Bio-Based Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive overview of flame retardants derived directly and indirectly from plant sources, drawing on cutting-e… Read more

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Bio-Based Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive overview of flame retardants derived directly and indirectly from plant sources, drawing on cutting-edge research and covering preparation methods, testing and evaluation techniques, enhanced properties, and end applications. Chapters introduce bio-based materials in the context of additives for flame retardancy, explaining fundamentals and testing methods and analyzing synthetic approaches and the potential advantages of pursuing a bio-based approach. This is followed by detailed coverage of bio-based retardants, with each chapter covering a specific source and guiding the reader systematically through preparation techniques, evaluation methods, properties and applications.

Throughout the book, the latest progress in the field is critically reviewed, and there is a continual emphasis on novel approaches to achieve enhanced properties and performant materials. This is an essential guide for all those with an interest in innovative, sustainable flame retardant additives for polymeric materials, including researchers, scientists, advanced students, and more.

Key features

  • Explains innovative techniques for the preparation of bio-based flame retardant mechanisms, analyzing properties, performance and applications
  • Offers in-depth coverage of a range of sources, including cellulose, lignin, cardanol, chitosan, eugenol, vanillin, furan, alginate and vegetable oils
  • Presents the latest advances in the field, serving as a novel resource to advanced students, researchers and R&D professionals in academia and industry

Readership

Researchers, scientists, and advanced students in flame retardants, bio-based materials, polymer science, composites, and engineering. Engineers, R&D, and other professionals in fire safety engineering, or working on advanced, sustainable materials for flame retardant applications

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Bio-Based Materials for Flame Retardancy

2. Synthetic Approaches to Bio-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

3. Fire Testing Methods of Bio-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

4. Cellulose- Based Flame Retardant for Polymeric Materials

5. Lignin and Its Derivatives: Potential Feedstock for Renewable Flame Retardant Polymers

6. Cardanol- Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

7. Chitosan- Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials and Their Applications

8. Development of Novel Flame Retardant Polymers Based on Eugenol

9. Flame Retardants from Starch: Phosphorus Derivatives of Isosorbide

10. Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials from Renewable Vanillin

11. Furan-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

12. Advances in Alginate-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

13. Phenolic-based Phosphorus Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials

14. Recent advances in the development and application of P- and N-modified starch derivatives as novel biobased flame retardants from renewable resources

15. Development of Natural Fiber Reinforced Flame Retardant Polymer Composites

16. Vegetable Oils-based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials

17. Preparation, Flame Retardancy and Mechanism of Natural Fiber/Polymer Composites

18. Perspective and Challenges in Using Bio-Based Flame Retardant

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 19, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

YH

Yuan Hu

Professor Yuan Hu is Director of the Institute of Fire Safety Materials at USTC. He obtained his PhD from USTC in 1997. He been active in fire safety materials research for more than 30 years. His main research interests include polymer/inorganic compound nanocomposites, new flame retardants and their flame retardant polymers, synthesis and properties of inorganic nanomaterials, combustion, and the decomposition mechanisms of polymers. Prof. Hu has published more than 600 SCI papers and he has more than 40 patents to his credit. In 2017, he was awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award by the Chinese Government.
Affiliations and expertise
State Key lab of Fire Science (SKLFS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China

HN

Hafezeh Nabipour

Hafezeh Nabipour is a researcher at the University of Western Ontario and previously served as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) for three years. She has authored over 80 ISI-indexed articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Her research focuses on synthesizing innovative metal-organic frameworks, designing novel bio-based polymers, and developing advanced complexes for applications in drug delivery, fire safety, and carbon dioxide capture.

Affiliations and expertise
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, University of Western Ontario, Canada

XW

Xin Wang

Dr. Xin Wang is currently working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He completed his PhD in Safety Science and Engineering from USTC in 2013. His research interests focus on synthesis and application of bio-based flame retardants, preparation of layered nanomaterials and their use in flame retardant polymer nanocomposites. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 SCI-indexed papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 5 book chapters and 1 monograph. He was also awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award, by the Chinese Government in 2017.
Affiliations and expertise
State Key lab of Fire Science (SKLFS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China

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