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Bio-Based Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive overview of flame retardants derived directly and indirectly from plant sources, drawing on cutting-edge research and covering preparation methods, testing and evaluation techniques, enhanced properties, and end applications. Chapters introduce bio-based materials in the context of additives for flame retardancy, explaining fundamentals and testing methods and analyzing synthetic approaches and the potential advantages of pursuing a bio-based approach. This is followed by detailed coverage of bio-based retardants, with each chapter covering a specific source and guiding the reader systematically through preparation techniques, evaluation methods, properties and applications.

Throughout the book, the latest progress in the field is critically reviewed, and there is a continual emphasis on novel approaches to achieve enhanced properties and performant materials. This is an essential guide for all those with an interest in innovative, sustainable flame retardant additives for polymeric materials, including researchers, scientists, advanced students, and more.

• Explains innovative techniques for the preparation of bio-based flame retardant mechanisms, analyzing properties, performance and applications
• Offers in-depth coverage of a range of sources, including cellulose, lignin, cardanol, chitosan, eugenol, vanillin, furan, alginate and vegetable oils
• Presents the latest advances in the field, serving as a novel resource to advanced students, researchers and R&D professionals in academia and industry

Professor Yuan Hu is Director of the Institute of Fire Safety Materials at USTC. He obtained his PhD from USTC in 1997. He been active in fire safety materials research for more than 30 years. His main research interests include polymer/inorganic compound nanocomposites, new flame retardants and their flame retardant polymers, synthesis and properties of inorganic nanomaterials, combustion, and the decomposition mechanisms of polymers. Prof. Hu has published more than 600 SCI papers and he has more than 40 patents to his credit. In 2017, he was awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award by the Chinese Government.

Dr. Hafezeh Nabipour is a researcher at Western University and previously served as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) for three years. She earned her PhD from Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University in Iran in 2015. Prior to her time at USTC, she worked at Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University and the University of Tehran for three years, serving as a visiting scholar and postdoctoral researcher. Her research focuses on the design of novel bio-based polymers, the synthesis of innovative metal-organic frameworks, and the development of advanced complexes for applications in fire safety and drug delivery.

Dr. Xin Wang is currently working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He completed his PhD in Safety Science and Engineering from USTC in 2013. His research interests focus on synthesis and application of bio-based flame retardants, preparation of layered nanomaterials and their use in flame retardant polymer nanocomposites. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 SCI-indexed papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 5 book chapters and 1 monograph. He was also awarded the 2nd Prize of the National Natural Science Award, by the Chinese Government in 2017.