Journal
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107695
Keywords
Polylactic acid (PLA); Submicron-grained structure; Flame retardancy
Funding
- Jiangsu Province Graduate Students Research and Innovation Plan [2019B66414]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51873196, 21671146]
- Scientific Research Foundation of Zhejiang AF University [2055210012]
- Key Research and Development Projects of Zhejiang Province [2018C01051, 2019C01098]
- Australia Research Council [DP190102992]
- Australia Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre [IC170100032]
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Last years have witnessed great advances in minimizing the flammability of the polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic. Unfortunately, to date there remains an urgent lack of a facile strategy to develop highly effective flame retardants for PLA. Herein, we report one-pot scalable fabrication of an oligomeric phosphoramide, phenyl phosphonic piperazine (PPP), via a one-step condensation polymerization. PPP can finely disperse within the PLA matrix showing a submicron-grained structure with a domain size of 100-300 nm. The addition of 3 wt% PPP increases the limiting oxygen index (LOI) of PLA to 32.5 vol%, and a V-0 rating is achieved. Such high flame retardancy is mainly attributed to the free radical quenching, gas dilution and the thermal barrier action of the char layer. Moreover, the PLA/3%PPP composite retains a tensile strength of 55.4 MPa. This work provides a facile and scalable approach to preparing high-performance flame retardant PLA materials.
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