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
