Citation

Price D, Cunliffe LK, Bullett KJ, Hull TR, Milnes GJ, Ebdon JR, Hunt BJ, Joseph P. Fire Polym. IV Mater. Concepts Hazard Prev. 2006; 252-265.

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(Copyright © 2006, American Chemical Society, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

Flammability studies concerned with the fire retardance of an additive fire retardant system of poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, containing triethyl phosphate (TEP) and two reactive systems of methyl methacrylate and diethyl 2(methacryloyloxy)ethylphosphate (DEMEP) and diethyl 2-(acryloyloxy)ethylphosphate (DEAEP) copolymers have already been reported These studies showed improvements in the fire retardancy when the phosphate group was incorporated into the polymer The purpose of this work is to establish the different modes of action of the additive and reactive fire retardants and to identify the causes of the different behaviours; A combination of TG with EGA, DSC, laser and microfurnace pyrolysis mass spectrometry and isothermal pyrolysis GC-MS were used for these studies The greater extent of the condensed phase interactions shown by the MMA/DEAEP case explains why that system has superior flame retarding ability than does the MMA/DEMEP system.