Industrial-grade coal fly ash hollow microspheres from a power station showed to improve fire performance of epoxy resin. Coal fly ash is mainly aluminium silicates, mostly as hollow microspheres c. 15 µm. Loadings of 2 – 10% w/w of flay ash with different densities...
A new N P Si compound was synthesised and showed fire performance and semi-durability on cotton. The new compound, DOPO-AmdPTES, was compared to and showed better performance than similar DOPO-oxysilane (DOPO-ETES, see Vasiljević et al. 2015). Both compounds were...
The large EU-funded population study has published conclusions of analysis of ten halogenated FRs in blood and four organo-phosphate metabolites in urine from 2136 children from nine European countries. Median levels of BDE-47 of c. 0.3 ng/g-lipid were found in...
A population study of 260 children with pre-school ADHD was compared to a stratified control group of 549, with data of organophosphate metabolites in mother’s urine at 17 weeks pregnancy. Statistically positive significant correlation was found between levels of DnBP...
Lab incubation trials (in the dark) used coastal sediment and sea water collected from the Mediterranean (near the outlet of Marseille’s sewage works) spiked with seven organo-phosphorus esters (list below) to c. 180 ng/g.dw for each of the OPEs. Ambient levels of the...
