TY - GEN A1 - Battig, Alexander T1 - Hyperbranched Polymeric Flame Retardants N2 - Most synthetic polymers have a high fire load, and as a result, they require flame retardants (FRs) to ensure their safe use. Phosphorus plays an important role in flame retardancy and has the potential to replace halogenated variants, which are assumed to be harmful to the environment and health. Among phosphorus-based FRs, there exists a trend towards polymeric, high molar mass molecules with complex molecular architectures. In this project, we synthesized a novel series of so-called phosphorus-based hyperbranched polymeric FRs and investigated their use as multifunctional additives to high-performance polymers, i.e. epoxy resins. By cleverly designing the chemical structure to contain varying amounts of P-O and P-N bonds, new insight into the chemical mechanism of flame retardancy was gained, and by comparing the hyperbranched polymers to their monomeric counterparts, a greater understanding of the role of complex architecture was won. This talk aims at presenting some of these results and proposes chemical mechanisms that illustrate what role these novel hyperbranched flame retardants play in molecular firefighting. T2 - AMI Fire Resistance in Plastics 2019 CY - Cologne, Germany DA - 03.12.2019 KW - Epoxy resin KW - Flame retardant KW - Hyperbranched polymers KW - Phosphoester KW - Phosphoramidate KW - Phosphoramide KW - Phosphorodiamidate KW - Pyrolysis PY - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50034 AN - OPUS4-50034 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany