Flame Retardant Polyamide Fibres: The Challenge of Minimising Flame Retardant Additive Contents with Added Nanoclays
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bolton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 0049_12_REF2_AH_02
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3390/polym8080288
- Title of journal
- Polymers
- Article number
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- First page
- 288
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 8
- ISSN
- 2073-4360
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.3390/polym8080288
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- For additives to be effective and still maintain acceptable fibre tensile properties, their presence must be of the order of 10 wt% or less but at such low concentrations, flame retardant additives are rarely effective. This paper demonstrated that a combination of a low (2 wt%) concentrations of montmorillonite clay with aluminium diethyl phosphinate at 10 wt%, gave acceptable tensile properties of drawn filaments which enabled knitted fabrics to show improved levels of flame retardancy.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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