Production and industrial application of nanostructured flame retardant reinforced composite materials

Paints used in many areas of daily life are used with the aim of creating in surface protection and decorative designs of materials. These paints contain material susceptible to fire such as polymeric binders, organic solvents. Because of this reason, paints easily burn. In this study, flame retardant properties of plastic paint material were investigated and tried to be developed. In this context, composite materials were obtained by adding different amounts of environmentally friendly (hologen-free) and nanosized flame retardant materials such as huntite/hydromagnesite, antimony (III) oxide and boric acid to paint material. And then these composite materials were characterized by XRD, XPS, FT-IR, DTA-TG, SEM, surface roughness and hardness testing machines. Candle flame test standards were also performed to examine flame retardant properties of these composite materials. After the results of the performed tests, composite materials were determined to exhibit excellent flame retardant properties. Keywords: Flame retardant, paints, polymer, nanocomposites