- Flame retardants in action
- Drivers in flame retardants development
- Additive vs reactive FRs
- Polymer decomposition chemistries & FR activity
- Gas phase flame retardants
- Halogen FR action & common brominated FRs
- Requirements of Gas Phase flame retardants
- Phosphorus, Nitrogen and sulphur as gas phase FRs
- Cone calorimetry
- Flame retardant mechanisms
- Charring/non-charring polymers
- Additives to stabilize char
- Intumescence
- Inorganic phosphates
- Range of components for intumescents
- Nanofillers & polymer nanocomposites
- Case study – intumescent PLA with nanoclay
- Layer-by-layer assembly
- Phosphorus-based chemistries
- Modes of FR action
- Case study – phosphorus comonomers in epoxy resins
- Other chemistries including silicates and boron
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