by Hannane Haddouch | Oct 16, 2025
PIN compounds are essential to intumescents, used to protect structures (steel, concrete, wood) and cables from fire. Comprehensive review of published research found over 13 000 papers on intumescent coatings, of which over 600 were analysed and over 200 finally...
by Hannane Haddouch | Oct 16, 2025
Phosphoramidate FRs were compared in cotton coatings, with functionalised silane versus orthosilicate. Silica included into the phosphoramidate (as functionalised silane) only showed fire protection synergy at higher loadings, whereas separate phosphoramidate and...
by Hannane Haddouch | Oct 16, 2025
New experimental method to analyse gases emitted in pyrolysis of textiles with/without phosphorus PIN FRs. Neat cotton (plain weave 170 g/m2) was compared to the same with 16.3% weight DOPO coating (9,10-Dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide). The novel...
by Hannane Haddouch | Sep 16, 2025
Highland Plastics Kelvinite non-halogen FR polyporopylene (PP) achieves UL94 V-0 at 0.25mm thickness. Designed and manufactured in the USA, these HFFR compounds comply with REACH and RoHS and are antimony and PFAS-free. Based on polypropylene (PP) and including...
by Hannane Haddouch | Sep 16, 2025
Review underlines benefits and potential of phosphorus-based FRs to improve fire safety of organic battery electrolytes. Organic electrolytes offer high ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability making them a key component of batteries, in particular for...
