Long description:

Bio-Based Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive overview of flame retardants derived directly and indirectly from plant sources, drawing on cutting-edge research and covering preparation methods, testing and evaluation techniques, enhanced properties, and end applications. Chapters introduce bio-based materials in the context of additives for flame retardancy, explaining fundamentals and testing methods and analyzing synthetic approaches and the potential advantages of pursuing a bio-based approach. This is followed by detailed coverage of bio-based retardants, with each chapter covering a specific source and guiding the reader systematically through preparation techniques, evaluation methods, properties and applications.

Throughout the book, the latest progress in the field is critically reviewed, and there is a continual emphasis on novel approaches to achieve enhanced properties and performant materials. This is an essential guide for all those with an interest in innovative, sustainable flame retardant additives for polymeric materials, including researchers, scientists, advanced students, and more.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Bio-Based Materials for Flame Retardancy
2. Synthetic Approaches to Bio-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
3. Fire Testing Methods of Bio-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
4. Cellulose- Based Flame Retardant for Polymeric Materials
5. Lignin and Its Derivatives: Potential Feedstock for Renewable Flame Retardant Polymers
6. Cardanol- Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
7. Chitosan- Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials and Their Applications
8. Development of Novel Flame Retardant Polymers Based on Eugenol
9. Flame Retardants from Starch: Phosphorus Derivatives of Isosorbide
10. Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials from Renewable Vanillin
11. Furan-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
12. Advances in Alginate-Based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
13. Phenolic-based Phosphorus Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials
14. Recent advances in the development and application of P- and N-modified starch derivatives as novel biobased flame retardants from renewable resources
15. Development of Natural Fiber Reinforced Flame Retardant Polymer Composites
16. Vegetable Oils-based Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials
17. Preparation, Flame Retardancy and Mechanism of Natural Fiber/Polymer Composites
18. Perspective and Challenges in Using Bio-Based Flame Retardant