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Journal of Chemical Technology and Applications | Volume 3
MASS SPECTROMETRY,
PROTEOMICS AND POLYMER CHEMISTRY
3
rd
International Conference on
Mass Spectrometry Congress 2019
NEW MATERIALS OBTAINED FROM BLENDING TECHNOLOGY FOR FIRE PROTECTION
APPLICATIONS
Mauricio Vásquez-Rendón
and
Mónica Lucía Álvarez-Láinez
Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia
A
ccording to recent studies an average of 60,000 fire-fighters were injured every year only in the United
States and from all those cases 126 are fatalities. Materials play a crucial role in human protection, in partic-
ular polymeric materials. However, due to their chemical composition polymers have very poor fire resistance
and normally flame retardant additives need to be used increasing the production costs and decreasing their
mechanical performance. High-performance polymer blends (HPPB) appear as an attractive solution to obtain
outstanding properties into a single material. However, HPPB technology deals with issues related to the mate-
rials high costs, the lack of fundamental studies between polymers interaction and the degradation caused by
the elevated processing temperatures. In one of our most recent work, author’s aim to study blends obtained
from three high-performance polymers and presents for the first time, the relationship between processing
conditions, viscoelastic properties, interfacial tension, and composition with the morphology and final perfor-
mance for this kind of systems. All blends were obtained from a conventional melt processing technique, and
our next challenge is to take our work to an industrial processing scale.
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