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Yang Yang1, Chunzhi Wang1, Yong Guan1
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Abstract:
The flame retardant bisphenol AP bis(diphenyl phosphate) (BAPDP) is synthesized from triphenyl phosphate and bisphenol AP via transesterification, producing a polycarbonate/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (PC/ABS) with a high flame retardancy and thermal stability. In this study, flame-retardant PC/ABS blends with various BAPDP contents are prepared, and their flame retardancy is studied using the limit oxygen index, vertical combustion, thermogravimetric analysis, and cone calorimeter testing. With a BAPDP content of 20 wt%, the product exhibits a limiting oxygen index of 25.4% and achieves the UL-94 V-0 grade, with a thermal deformation temperature of 72.6 °C. BAPDP improves the flame retardancy of the PC/ABS blends and exhibits fewer adverse effects on the thermal deformation temperature than other commercial flame retardants at the same concentration.
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