Objective
Flammability is a major limiting factor for the expansion of polymer materials. The potential contribution of polymer materials to development of technologies with reduced environmental impact may thus be missed. Fire retardant approaches developed in the past can no longer be used owing to undesirable side effects during fire retrace action and hindrance to end of life recycling technologies. Worldwide research in this area has not yet provided a suitable solution in terms of simultaneous fire risk and fire hazard reduction. However, new classes of Nan composite materials and inorganic-organic hybrids can be rendered inherently fire retardant if their decomposition behaviour is catalytically directed towards crimination and charring with creation of a surface protection to the polymer material. Particularly interesting in this approach are polyhedralsilsesquioxanes (POSS), carbon annotates (Cants), and needle-like silicates with which the project deals. The success in implementing the crimination-charring mechanism, requires a combination of expertise encompassing deep knowledge in polymer chemistry and engineering, polymer thermal degradation and combustion, inorganic and physical chemistry and catalysis that could assist in performing a great breakthrough in an area that is of vital importance to our technological development.
The partners of the Consortium proposing the project cover all these areas at a highly qualified level which is necessary to produce the substantial progress in basic knowledge on the flammability of polymer Nan composites and hybrids required to create an environmentally friendly highly performing new approach in fire retardance. Beside fire retrace, the inorganic anaphases are suitable carriers for distributing functional molecules in the polymer matrix that can lead to multifunctional materials with a whole range of applications such as transport, electrical and electronic sector, building, furniture, clothing, etc.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids amorphous semiconductors
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials two-dimensional nanostructures graphene
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology materials engineering nanocomposites
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Programme(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-NMP-1
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Coordinator
ALESSANDRIA
Italy
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