Preparation of Flame-Retardant Polyurethane and Its Applications in the Leather Industry
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Table 1 - please provide the chemical formulas in the same way for all compounds.
Table 2 - caption is missing.
Generally the Authors did a great job summarizing the literature about the flame retardancy of PUs. However, I miss couple of things:
- Tables which will summarize and compare the effect of various additives, e.g. their effect on LOI or PHR or THR or other parameters,
- what about flame retarded polyols with built P and N atoms,
- What about expandable graphite, which is quite popular?
- Describe better the mechanisms of actions of particular flame retardants.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors,
As one of the selected reviewers, I read your manuscript carefully. While your research has addressed an important subject, however, I observed some issues that must be addressed in a newer version.
- What are the health risks of using these flame-retardant polyurethanes, add a description about it.
- Add respective citations in Table 1.
- What are the prospects, add a separate section about?
- Also, no research limitation or research gap of this research direction is explained.
- Describe what dimensions of the problem have been found by you to explore further.
- I suggest you add a discussion before a concrete conclusion.
- Check punctuations carefully, for example, see additional unnecessary full stop at line 323.
- There are too many self-citations in the manuscript, which should be reduced.
- Check subscripts, for example, see line #40.
I look forward to receiving the revision and reviewing the newer version.
Best of luck"
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Everything in order after corrections
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors have improved the manuscript as per the reviewer's guidance; therefore, the manuscript might be considered for publication in its present form.