Thermal stability and flame retardancy of polyurethanes

Progress in Polymer Science (Oxford)

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1068-1133

  Chattopadhyay, D K ^a   Webster, Dean C ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Flame retardancy; Fullerenes; Functionalization; Nanocomposite; Polyurethane; Polyurethane imide; Polyurethane isocyanurate; Polyurethane oxazolidone; POSS; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS POLYURETHANE DISPERSIONS; AROMATIC RINGS; CHAIN EXTENDERS; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; CROSSLINKED STRUCTURES; CURING AGENTS; CYCLOTRIPHOSPHAZENES; DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM; EXPANDABLE GRAPHITE; FLAME RETARDANCY; FLAME-RETARDANT MECHANISMS; FUNCTIONALIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED; HARD SEGMENTS; HYBRID FORMATION; HYPERBRANCHED; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; ISOCYANURATE; NANO-SILICA; NANOCOMPOSITE FORMATIONS; ORGANICALLY-MODIFIED LAYERED SILICATES; ORGANOBORON COMPOUND; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS; POLY(URETHANE-IMIDE)S; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES; POLYOLS; POSS; S-TRIAZINES; SIDE CHAINS; SOFT SEGMENTS; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATION; TGA-FTIR; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; THERMAL STABILITY; TIO;

ADDITIVES; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BORON COMPOUNDS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEGRADATION; DENDRIMERS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FLAMMABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FULLERENES; GELATION; GRAPHITE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYURETHANES; PYROLYSIS; SILICA; SILICATES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

EID: 69449093119     PISSN: 00796700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2009.06.002     Document Type: Review

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