TY - CONF A1 - Battig, Alexander T1 - Waste not, Want not: Leather Industrial Waste as a Fire Retardant Adjuvant in EVA N2 - An interesting fire retardant behavior of leather wastes collected from local tannery industry was observed in a detailed study on morphological, pyrolysis, forced combustion, flammability, mechanical and rheological properties. T2 - 18th European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials, FRPM21 CY - Budapest, Hungary DA - 29.08.2021 KW - Leather KW - Industrial waste KW - Circular economy KW - Bio-filler KW - Sustainability KW - Ethylene vinyl acetate PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53205 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Battig, Alexander T1 - Flame Retardancy Forge on Sustainability - Fun, Food for Thought, Future N2 - This presentation outlines the role biogenic flame retardant fillers play in attaining sustainability goals associated with the bioeconomy. The talk presents biogenic waste compounds as flame retardant syngergists with phosphorus flame retardants in various polymers. T2 - Climate Change @ Fire Science Workshop CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 10.11.2022 KW - Sustainable KW - Flame retardancy KW - Bioeconomy PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56285 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Battig, Alexander T1 - Multifunctional Graphene in Flame Retarded Polybutadiene/ Chloroprene/ Carbon Black Composites N2 - Multilayer graphene is investigated as a multifunctional nanofiller to polybutadiene/ chloroprene rubbers (BR/CR) that partially substitutes carbon black (CB) and aluminum trihydroxide (ATH). Loadings of only 3 parts per hundred rubber (phr) MLG replaced 15 phr of CB and/or 3 phr of ATH in BR/CR nanocomposites. Mechanical and fire behavior were investigated, and results point to improved rheological, curing and mechanical properties of MLG-containing rubber composites. T2 - 18th European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials, FRPM21 CY - Budapest, Hungary DA - 29.08.2021 KW - Graphene KW - Rubber KW - Fire Retardant KW - Nanofiller KW - Nanocomposite KW - ATH PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53202 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -