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Development of multifunctional highly-efficient bio-based fire-retardant poly(lactic acid) composites for simultaneously improving thermal, crystallization and fire safety properties

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages 646-656

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.06.158

Keywords

Poly (lactic acid); Biological macromolecules; Thermal properties; Crystallization properties; Flame retardancy

Funding

  1. High Level Talent project of Fujian province [201911052]
  2. Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2020J05191]
  3. Starting Fund of Fujian University of Technology [GY-Z15002, GY-Z19047]
  4. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Applica-tions [fma2020004]

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This paper investigates the use of a novel bio-based nucleation agent FPPA for the fabrication of fire safety PLA/FPPA composites. The results show that FPPA not only provides high thermal stability, but also enhances the fire safety of PLA. Additionally, it has minimal impact on the transparency and mechanical properties of PLA.
Currently, it is still a huge challenge to prepare high performance eco-friendly poly(lactic acid) (PLA) with high thermal stability, good processability, excellent crystallization behavior, good transparency and highly-efficient fire safety. In this paper, a novel bio-based nucleation agent N-(furan-2-ylmethyl)-P,P-diphenylphosphinic amide (FPPA) was prepared and used for the fabrication of fire safety PLA/FPPA composites. The chemical structure of FPPA was measured by FTIR, NMR and MS. Further, the crystallization behavior, thermal stability, fire safety and mechanical properties of PLA/FPPA composites were performed by TGA, DSC, polarization microscope, LOI, UL94, cone calorimeter, DMA and, SEM, Raman, GC-MS, and TGA-FTIR. The results showed that the multi-functional FPPA not only had a high thermal stability and was a good nucleation agent for PLA. Moreover, only loading of 3 wt% FPPA increased the LOI of PLA from 19.0 to 33.8 % with UL-94 V-0 classification. Furthermore, the heat release rate and total heat release values of PLA/3%FPPA composite reduced by 6.3 % and 15.3 % in cone-calorimeter test. Such high fire safety was mainly attributed to specific fire safety radicals due to thermal degradation of FPPA to interrupt composites burning in gas phase. Besides, transparency and mechanical properties were almost not changed because of low loading of FPPA in PLA. This multifunctional bio-based fire -retardant for PLA with good comprehensive performance promises broad application in engineering electronics, automobiles, 3D printing and construction materials.

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