Advances in Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials II

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Polymers aims to broaden and deepen the scientific and technological knowledge with the most recent advances in the preparation, performance, and application of flame-retardant polymeric materials with respect to the concept of long-term environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

Flame-retardant natural and synthetic polymeric materials play a crucial role in building the fire-safe urban world. At the same time, the demand for minimizing potential health and environmental impacts requires considering the toxicology, safety, and circularity parameters at the beginning of the design process of flame-retardant systems. This drives development of new flame retardants and flame-retardant materials, ensuring that fire safety is not compromised at the expense of the targeted sustainability. In that respect, an interdisciplinary approach for the development of flame-retardant systems with improved persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic profiles, lowered heat and smoke release, and reduced smoke toxicity is of high importance.

We invite the research community to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting comprehensive reviews or original research articles. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Flame-retardant co-monomers and co-polymers;
• New polymeric flame retardants and their application;
• Flame-retardant polymers by reactive extrusion;
• Multi-component flame-retardant systems;
• Bio-based flame retardants and their application;
• Flame-retardant composites;
• Nano-dispersed flame-retardant systems;
• Flame-retardant systems for surface treatments and coatings;
• Flame-retardant systems for film- and fiber-forming polymers;
• Fundamentals of thermal stability, heat transfer, smoke release, and flame-retardant mechanisms;
• Flame retardancy of recycled polymers;
• Assessment of the toxicity of combustion products;
• Assessment of the migration/leaching of flame retardant from polymer;
• Assessment of the physical/chemical recyclability of flame-retardant polymer;
• Assessment of the biodegradation of flame-retardant polymer;
• Life cycle analysis (LCA) of flame-retardant polymeric materials;
• Structure modelling of flame-retardant molecules.

Prof. Dr. Ivan Jerman
Dr. Jelena Vasiljević
Guest Editors

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