Sustainable Flame Retardants
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flame retardants; polymer composites; safe lithium batteries/lithium sulfur batteries
Interests: flame retardants; polymer composites; fire hazards assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, polymers have played a significant and ubiquitous role our life to the extent that we cannot imagine life without them. Benefiting from their predominant merits, the applications of polymers have spread to versatile areas, including construction, automobile and aerospace. Nevertheless, most polymers, regardless of the source, are suffering from a disreputable and nerve-wracking issue of inherent flammability (ease of ignition and release of considerable heat), which severely threatens the life and property. Meanwhile, the most devastating fire accidents in past decades provide impressive caution to human, driving the development of flame retardant technology. In this context, taking into account the high fire hazard of polymeric materials, the quest for efficient flame-retardant additives with versatile functionalities is apparent. Moreover, the increasingly serious environmental pollution problems associated with the usage of non-degradable materials and hazardous additives, has proposed more stringent requirements on the sustainability of flame retardant additives.
This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of exploiting sustainable flame retardants and their applications in diverse situations. This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions on advances in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of sustainable flame retardants.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainable flame retardant systems, practices and production
- Flame-retardant polymeric and composites materials
- Thermally stable polymeric and composite materials
- Methodologies and tools for thermal and fire hazards assessment
- Thermal and fire modeling/simulations
- Environmental occurrence, toxicity and analysis of flame retardants
- Measuring and monitoring sustainability of flame retardants
- Policies and laws relating to sustainability
Dr. Junling Wang
Dr. Bihe Yuan
Dr. Zongmin Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymers
- sustainability
- flame retardants
- fire hazard
- modeling
- environmental effect
