Recent Advances in Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 178
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flame retardant; synthesis; organophosphorus compound; polymer; fire safe material; flame retardant mechanism
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric materials are widely used in every corner of modern life. Even though various materials involve polymers, most of them are combustible due to their nature of high contents of C and H elements. With the increasing concern of fire hazards and increasingly strict laws and regulations, flame-retardant polymeric materials have seen rapid development in recent decades. Nowadays, aside from some specific, banned halogen-containing flame retardants, researchers generally focus on flame retardants containing phosphorus, nitrogen, silicon, boron, etc. When superior flame retardancy is achieved by polymeric materials, researchers look to improve other properties, such as thermal, mechanical, dielectric, electromagnetic shielding, and electrochemistry attributes, to obtain polymers with good comprehensive performance. Furthermore, fire-safe polymeric nanocomposites are always prepared with low loading and property enhancement.
This Special Issue is designed to gather scientific papers about recent advances in flame retardant polymeric materials. Contributions are invited on all themes, including but not limited to the synthesis of new flame retardants, polymers with excellent flame retardancy, multifunctional flame-retardant polymers, study of flame-retardant mechanisms, and flame-retardant polymeric nanocomposites. Full papers, short communications, and review articles presenting and discussing the most recent trends in these areas are welcome.
Dr. Chao Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymeric materials
- flame retardants
- synthesis
- multifunctionality
- mechanisms
- nanocomposites
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