Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 294.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20160599

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Influence of Polyphosphate Flame Retardant Couple with Ammonium Polyphosphate on Epoxy Resin

LI Pei1, FU Hai1, ZHAO Ou1, LAI Fang1, CHEN Shimei1, MEI Guiyou1, ZHAO Wei2, BAN Daming1,*()   

  1. 1. School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China
    2. Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:2016-08-24 Online:2017-02-10 Published:2017-01-05
  • Contact: BAN Daming E-mail:bdaming@gznu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51273049), the Innovation Team of Guizhou Province, China(No.[2014]4006) and the Key Social Problem Plan of Guizhou, China(No.[2013]3146)

Abstract:

A novel polyphosphate flame retardant, poly(2-10-hydrogen-9-oxa-phosphaphenanthrene hydroquinone phenyl phosphate)(POPP), aimed at improving the flame retardancy of EP was prepared. POPP and ammonium polyphosphate(APP) at the mass ratio of 1:2 were added into EP to form a series of flame retardant modified epoxy resin(FR-EP). The chemical bond adsorptions of FR-EP were investigated by infrared spectroscopic analysis. The thermal stability was study by thermal gravimetric analysis(TGA). Flame retardant properties as well as burning behavior of epoxy resin composites have been investigated by limited oxygen index(LOI) and vertical burning test(UL-94). Fire properties of modified epoxy resin were test by Cone calorimeter. The morphological characteristics of char residue after Cone test were studied by scanning electron microscope(SEM). The result shows that POPP increase burning behavior at lower adding amount, which help epoxy resin to pass UL-94 V-0 at 5%. But POPP modified epoxy resin gave out only 24.2% of LOI value. POPP/APP flame retardant increase not only UL-94 grade but also much higher LOI value. A UL-94 V-0 grade was obtained when 5% POPP/APP were added into the epoxy matrix and 27.7% LOI value. When adding amount of POPP/APP are increased to 15%, a higher LOI value of 33.8% can be get. Results of TGA test indicate that decomposition temperature of FR-EP decrease along with increase of flame retardant amount. But modified samples give out more char residue. By incorporation of POPP/APP, THR, HRR, EHC, TSR and COP of FR-EP were reduced obviously, and promote char residue dramatically. PkHRR decrease from 831.5 kW/m2 to 346.8 kW/m2 at 15% of adding amount. Morphology study shows that good flame retardant property of FR-EP is contributed to well-formed char residue structure. These structures of char are net-like and type may prevent little burning product from moving out to the surface of matrix. Moreover, this char residue protects inner material from heat.

Key words: Epoxy resin, Phosphorus, Ammonium polyphospate, Intumescent flame retardant

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