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Thermal-resistant Plastic Composites for Industrial Applications: Processing and Properties

Zhong S., Rutkevičicus M., Stoner C., ABB US Research Center, US

Intumescent thermoplastic composites have found wider applications in recent years thanks to their excellent thermal- resistant performance, low cost and high compatibility in mass production, such as injection molding. A series of intumescent polymer composites [...]

VEROGLAZE – color and protection for metal

Piesslinger-Schweiger S., POLIGRAT GmbH, DE

VEROGLAZE is a new revolutionary method, which applies long living hard and dense protective layers of quartz glass onto solid surfaces of numerous materials like Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Copper Alloys, Zinc, concrete, ceramics, stone, [...]

Fiber Optic Sensors for High Temperature Monitoring

Rinaudo P., Torres Górriz B., Barrera Villar D., Sales Maicas S., Calderón García P.A., Javier Payá-Zaforteza I., Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), ES

Recent events such as the fires on the Channel tunnel (1996), St. Gotthard (2001), the Twin Towers in New York (2001), The Windsor Building in Madrid (2005) and the collapse of the MacArthur Maze in [...]

Fiber Optic Sensors for High Temperature Monitoring

Rinaudo P., Torres Górriz B., Barrera Villar D., Sales Maicas S., Calderón García P.A., Javier Payá-Zaforteza I., Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), ES

Recent events such as the fires on the Channel tunnel (1996), St. Gotthard (2001), the Twin Towers in New York (2001), The Windsor Building in Madrid (2005) and the collapse of the MacArthur Maze in [...]

Characterizing Nanoparticle Emissions from Burning Polymer Nanocomposites

Nyden M.R., Harris R.H., Kim Y-S, Davis R.D., Marsh N.D., Zammarano M., National Institute of Standards and Technology, US

At Nanotech 2009, we presented evidence that CNFs used as fire retardants in polyurethane foam (PUF), were destroyed in the flames and, therefore, were not released when CNF containing foams are burned under well-ventilated conditions. [...]