NETHIPEC: “Next generation high performance epoxy-based composites: Green recycling and molecular-level fire retardancy”
The project is aimed at understanding the recycling mechanisms of epoxy-based materials and improve their fire retardancy. The objectives of the project involve the two that follow. Firstly, design and development of novel multifunctional high reactivity curing agents that entail controllable functional cross-linking groups on the wall of beta-cyclodextrin structures (easily recyclable at the end of service life). And secondly, improvement of fire retardancy by a synergistic approach that combines molecular-level dispersion, multi-element addition (P, Si, C, O) and gas-condensed phase intumescent fire retardant that relies on the cavity of cyclodextrin (an excellent fire retardant). In parallel, the regeneration of epoxy resins formed by recycled epoxy monomer will be studied. It is expected that the recycled epoxy will provide even higher mechanical properties and better fire retardancy than the parent epoxy.
NETHIPEC: “Next generation high performance epoxy-based composites: Green recycling and molecular-level fire retardancy”
- Funding Institution/Programme: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- Region: Spain
- Project period: 2013– 2015
- Principal Investigator: Dr. De-Yi Wang
