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Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Handbook 2nd Edition
Edited by
Alexander B. Morgan
University of Dayton Research Institute, Ohio, USA
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Preface to the 2nd Edition of the Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Handbook
Since the writing of the first edition in 2014, and the writing/publishing of this book in the 2020-21 timeframe, there have been some notable changes to the non-halogenated flame retardant field. Mostly, there have been an increase in regulations of flame retardant (FR) chemicals, further de-selection of chlorinated/brominated flame retardants, and some diversification of the flame retardants that exist in the “non-halogenated” category. Therefore, a need for a 2nd edition existed. This is actually quite rapid for the FR field and for generation of a 2nd edition of a book only 6 years after the publishing of the first, vs. the typical 10-15 years for FR book updates. FR technology tends to move at a slow pace due to flame retardant material science being a reactive field in response to regulations. Regulations take a notable amount of time to develop, be debated, and put into law, and so developments in FR chemistry in response to those regulations takes equally long. It can take even longer to take those developments out of the lab and scientific literature and then commercialize them.
The need of a book dedicated to non-halogenated flame retardant chemistry remains as strong as it did with the 1st edition, and this book includes chapters on FRs including Phosphorus-based (Chapter 2), Mineral-based (Chapter 3), Intumescent-based (Chapter 4), Nitrogen-based (Chapter 5), Silicon-based (Chapter 6), Boron-based (Chapter 7), and all the other non-halogenated FR systems which are not based upon the above elements (Chapter 10). All of these chapters existed in the 1st edition of the book, but each of these chapters has been updated for this book, and in some cases, significantly so. Chapter 10 is significantly revised, and includes bio-based FR chemicals, as well as some newer concepts. There are three new chapters in this book, including a chapter on regulations (Chapter 1), a chapter on conformal non-halogenated flame retardant coatings (Chapter 8), and a chapter on multi-component flame retardant systems (Chapter 9). Overall, the revised content in the chapters from the 1st edition, and the new chapters to this edition create an excellent contribution to flame retardant materials