Flame retardancy through carbon nanomaterials: Carbon black, multiwall nanotubes, expanded graphite, multi-layer graphene and graphene in polypropylene

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1495-1505

  Dittrich, Bettina ^a   Wartig, Karen Alessa ^b   Hofmann, Daniel ^b   Mülhaupt, Rolf ^b   Schartel, Bernhard ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon nanomaterials; Flame retardancy; Graphene; Nanocomposites; Polypropylene; Thermally reduced graphite oxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; CARBON NANO-PARTICLES; DIFFERENT PARTICLE SIZES; FLAME RETARDANCY; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; PEAK HEAT RELEASE RATES; REDUCED GRAPHITE OXIDES; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

CARBON BLACK; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTUBES; POLYPROPYLENE OXIDES; POLYPROPYLENES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84878798128     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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