Electron beam irradiation cross linking of halogen-free flame-retardant ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer by silica gel microencapsulated ammonium polyphosphate and char-forming agent

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5596-5605

  Wang, Bibo ^a   Tai, Qilong ^a   Nie, Shibin ^b   Zhou, Keqing ^a   Tang, Qinbo ^a   Hu, Yuan ^a   Song, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; COMBUSTIBLE GAS; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMER; FLAME RETARDANCY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRA; HALOGEN-FREE; IRRADIATION DOSE; JOINT EFFECT; MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; MICROENCAPSULATED AMMONIUM POLYPHOSPHATE; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; VOLUME RESISTIVITY; WATER-RESISTANCES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CAPILLARY FLOW; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTODEGRADATION; SILICA; SILICA GEL; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WATER TREATMENT;

POLYVINYL ACETATES;

EID: 79955544536     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie102394q     Document Type: Article

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