Fire properties of polymer nanocomposites

Abstract

The terminology polymer nanocomposite describes a composite in which one of the composite materials, the nano-material, has a minimum of one dimension which is on the nanoscale and it is completely dispersed throughout the polymer. The typical nanomaterial is a clay but graphite, single-wall and multiple-wall nanotubes and nanoscale spherical particles, such as polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane, POSS [1],[2], silica [5] and titania [6],[7], have also been used. © Springer 2006.