Recent advances in flame retardant polymer nanocomposites

摘要

In October of 1998 a NIST-industrial consortium was formed to study the flammability of polymer-clay nanocomposites. The focus of research within this consortium was to develop a fundamental understanding of the fife retardant (FR) mechanism of these unique materials. We report here on some of the results of the first year of this study; we focus our discussions on the results for polystyrene (PS), and we also report on our efforts to address the issue of processing stability through the use of new NMR techniques and the development of new thermally stable imidazolium and crown-ether-treated clays.