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Fire Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites

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Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications ((SMIA,volume 143))

Abstract

The terminology polymer nanocomposite describes a composite in which one of the composite materials, the nano-material, has a minimum of one dimension which is on the nanoscale and it is completely dispersed throughout the polymer. The typical nanomaterial is a clay but graphite, single-wall and multiple-wall nanotubes and nanoscale spherical particles, such as polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane, POSS [1],[2], silica [3–5] and titania [6],[7], have also been used.

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Wang, D., Wilkie, C.A. (2006). Fire Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites. In: Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 143. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5356-6_9

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