Natural Polymers for Fire Safety
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Macromolecular Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2023) | Viewed by 1506
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fire safety engineering; composite and hybrid materials; functional materials; polymers and plastics; nanofabrication; growth and self assembly; inorganic materials (incl. nanomaterials)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The issue of fire safety is currently attracting extensive attention, especially on the fields of building materials, decoration materials, portable electronics, and electric vehicles. To meet the developing requirement of the market, green, nontoxic, and low-cost flame retardants is widely welcomed and is being investigated on an ongoing basis.
Natural polymers, such as cellulose, chitosan, alginate, etc., are widely concerned and employed to be used as flame retardants, nanofillers, coatings, etc., to address the fire safety issues. To date, natural polymers, especially marine-based and plants-based natural polymers, are becoming a hot point that could be used to boost the development of fire resistance technology. Like the risk of Australia bushfire, the resolution of bushfire risk maybe comes from the bush itself. Moreover, natural polymers are replacing oil-based ones, especially in the field of decoration and building materials, and materials applied in portable electronics and electric vehicles; therefore, how to resolve the fire safety issue is a meaningful as well as an urgent subject.
This Special Issue aims to provide a high quality platform to display high quality papers on natural polymer materials, anticipating that could inspire readers with innovative thinking and thus promote the development of fire safety science. Research on bio-based materials, including the extraction, synthesis, and modification as well as the evaluation of fire safety and environment impact, are all considered. Works on other novel fire safety technologies are also welcomed.
Dr. Wei Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Natural polymers
- Fire safety
- Flame retardancy
- Bio-based fire retardants
- Marine-based polymers Polymer composites
- Flame retardant coatings
- Foams
- Fabrics
- Battery materials
