Fabrication of Green Lignin-based Flame Retardants for Enhancing the Thermal and Fire Retardancy Properties of Polypropylene/Wood Composites

Autor: Mengbo Qian, Lina Liu, Pingan Song, Shenyuan Fu, Guobo Huang, Youming Yu
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 4:2422-2431
ISSN: 2168-0485
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b00112
Popis: Despite growing extensive applications, until now the poor thermal stability and flame retardancy properties of wood–plastic composites (WPC) remain effectively unsolved. Meanwhile, industrial lignin has emerged as a potential component for polymer composites due to many advantages including abundance, rich reactive functional groups, high carbon content and tailored capability for chemical transformations. Herein, we have fabricated one biobased flame retardant based on industrial lignin chemically grafted with phosphorus, nitrogen and copper elements, as the functional additive for the WPC. Compared with unmodified lignin (O-lignin), functionalized lignin (F-lignin) is more effective to improve the thermal stability and flame retardancy of WPC because of presence of the flame retardancy elements (P and N) and the catalytic effect of Cu2+ on the char-formation. The presence of F-lignin not only reduces the heat release rate, total heat release and slows down the combustion process but also decreases tota...
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