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Fire and Polymers 2008, at the ACS National Meeting, April 6-10, 2008, New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA

Alexander B. Morgan, University of Dayton Research Institute

ACS PRF SE funds were used to support invited foreign speaker travel to the US to present at the 5^th Fire and Polymers Symposium, part of the Polymeric Materials:  Science & Engineering (PMSE) division of talks given at the recent ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA from April 6-10.  The symposium was a strong success, covering 3 full days of talks (3 morning, 3 afternoon sessions – 42 talks total) with strong attendance in all sessions.  All 10 of the invited foreign speakers came and presented during the conference (listed below).  Those of us who organized the conference felt that the audience was a good mix of the usual researchers in the flame retardant field as well as new researchers and chemists/material scientists interested in material flammability.  Question and answer sessions were robust and efforts are underway to capture many of the talks from this symposium into a ACS symposium series book, to be published next year. 

Dr. Serge Bourbigot, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)

Title of presentation:  Flame retardancy of polymer nanocomposites with and without flame retardants

Prof. John R. Ebdon, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK

Title of presentation: Flame retarding polyacrylonitrile (PAN) through use of comonomers and nanofillers           

Dr. Bernhard Schartel, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing        

Title of presentation:   Flame Retardancy Mechanisms in Halogen-Free PC/ABS Blends           

Dr. Sophie Duquesne, Affiliation Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)        

Title of presentation:  Fire Retardancy of Polypropylene Using Intumescent Coatings     

Prof. Baljinder Kandola, University of Bolton, United Kingdom

Title of presentation: The Effect of Flame Retardants on the Thermal, Burning and Char Formation Behaviour of Polypropylene – Nanoclay Compounded Polymers      

Prof. Yuan Hu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

Title of presentation: Carbonization of inorganic layered compound on polymer:  Preparation and Mechanism    

Prof. Giovanni Camino, Politechnic of Torino, Alesandria Branch, Italy 

Title of presentation: Polymer Nanocomposites:  Thermal and Combustion Behaviour    

Prof Richard Hull, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Title of presentation: TGA-FTIR investigation of the fire retardant mechanism of acrylonitrile copolymers containing nanofillers        

Dr. Manfred Doering, Institute for Tech. Chem., Karlsruhe Res. Ctr, Germany

Title of presentation: Advanced composite materials based on flame-retardant epoxy resins       

Prof. Jose-Marie Lopez-Cuesta, Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France        

Title of presentation: Flame retardant nanocomposites based on recycled PET and PC

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