Thermal behavior of covalently bonded phosphonate flame-retarded poly(methyl methacrylate) systems

Polymers for Advanced Technologies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 710-723

  Price, D ^a   Cunliffe, L K ^b   Bullet, K J ^b   Hull, T R ^a,c   Milnes, G J ^a   Ebdon, J R ^d   Hunt, B J ^d   Joseph, P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DSC; Laser and microfurnace pyrolysis mass spectrometry and isothermal pyrolysis GC MS; MMA diethyl(acryloyloxymethyl)phosphonate; MMA diethyl(methacryloy loxymethyl)phosphonate and diethylethylphosphonate; PMMA; Reactive flame retardant mechanisms; SEM; TG with EGA

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COAL; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ESTERS; FLAME SPRAYING; FLAMMABILITY; FOOD ADDITIVES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONMETALS; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PYROLYSIS; SECONDARY EMISSION;

CHAIN SCISSIONS; CHAR RESIDUES; CONDENSED PHASE; COVALENTLY BONDED; DECOMPOSITION RATES; FLAME RETARDANTS; FLAME RETARDATION; HOMO POLYMERS; METHACRYLATE (APMA); METHYL METHACRYLATE COPOLYMERS; PHOSPHONATE; PHOSPHORUS CONTENTS; POLY METHYL METHACRYLATE (PMMA); POLYMER DECOMPOSITION; PYROLYSIS MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEM STUDIES; SMOOTH SURFACES; VAPOR PHASE;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

COPOLYMER; FLAME RESISTANCE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PYROLYSIS;

EID: 47149112992     PISSN: 10427147     EISSN: 10991581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pat.1167     Document Type: Article

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