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Highly Flame-Retardant Liquid Crystalline Polymers

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The flame retardation for polymer materials can be easily achieved by blending small-molecular flame retardants. However, traditional small molecule flame retardants exhibit potential drawbacks during application, including migration and blooming of the additives; deterioration of the polymer performance; and potential persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity (PBT); etc. High molecular weight polymers have been found to be less accessible by living organisms, thus have an automatically lower PBT profile than small molecules. As a typical kind of highly flame-retardant liquid crystalline polymers (LCP), phosphorus-containing LCPs have been proved to be a class of efficient high molecular weight flame retardants, which can overcome the aforementioned drawbacks, and have potential industrial applications to replace some existing small molecular flame retardants. The recent relevant developments of phosphorus-containing LCPs with high flame retardance and the corresponding in situ flame-retardant composites are reviewed in this chapter.

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Chen, L., Wang, YZ. (2019). Highly Flame-Retardant Liquid Crystalline Polymers. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_55-1

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