Journal
POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 97, Issue 4, Pages 645-652Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2012.01.004
Keywords
Zinc stannate; Aryl phosphate; Phosphinate; Melamine salts; Polyamide 6; Flammability
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- William Blythe Ltd., UK
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1020988] Funding Source: researchfish
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Zinc stannate is a well known synergist and smoke suppressant with brominated flame retardants in a number of polymers but its possible synergistic function with phosphorus-containing species is less well documented. This paper reports the effect of adding zinc stannate together with aluminium diethyl phosphinate, an aryl phosphate (resorcinol bis (diphenyl phosphate)), a cyclic organophosphonate, melamine polyphosphate and melamine cyanurate singly or in combinations in polyamide 6 (PA6). Compounded formulations restricted by the need to maintain a maximum level of 20 wt% or less and an assumed constant molar ratio, Sn/P = 2/3, were characterized by DTA/DTG, limiting oxygen index, UL94, cone calorimetry and tensile testing procedures. Of the formulations studied, that comprising 10 wt% melamine polyphosphate, 5 wt% aryl phosphate and 7.5 wt% zinc stannate produced one of the highest LOI values of 26.5 vol% and a UL94 V2 rating. Clear evidence is provided that zinc stannate functions as a synergist only when these two phosphorus-containing species are present and not when individually present. The addition of zinc stannate to all formulations improved tensile property retention. The further addition of either zinc borate or a nanoclay appeared to negate any previously observed zinc stannate-phosphorus synergy in PA6. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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