Investigating the fire behaviour of polymeric materials using a cone calorimeter
Source: BAM, Division Technical Properties of Polymeric Materials
Working successfully in the field of phosphorus-containing flame retardants for such a long time, we used the opportunity to write this review, “Molecular Firefighting – How Modern Phosphorus Chemistry Can Help Solve the Flame Retardancy Task”, together with an up-and-coming working group active in phosphorus-based chemistry. Our review attempts to point out the most important current trends in this field in a structured and concise way. We avoided collecting papers like stamps; indeed, hundreds of references have been used at first, then deleted during the writing process, so as to single out the most important aspects and to communicate our main message.
Of course, reviews are in great demand in vivid scientific fields such as flame retardancy of polymers. Given the ever-increasing output of scientific publications, it is a matter of fact that scientists do not longer examine every single new paper relevant to their work, but also rely on review articles summarizing the research trends in recent literature. On the other hand, it means that writing a valuable, objective, and comprehensive review is a hell of a job, usually queueing up forever behind publishing original works in our busy working group. Facing this challenge, the reward for sacrificing a reasonable amount of the DFG-project (SCHA 730/15-1) working time is a gem of review in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57, 10450-10467, 2018 with its extraordinary reputation, where the message may reach a wider audience. Case in point: a paper of the month.
Molecular Firefighting - How Modern Phosphorus Chemistry Can Help Solve the Challenge of Flame Retardancy
M. M. Velencoso, Alexander Battig, J. C. Markwart, Bernhard Schartel, F. R. Wurm
Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., Volume 57, Issue 33
BAM Department Safety of Structures, Division Technical Properties of Polymeric Materials