Eco-friendly flame retardant poly(lactic acid) composites based on banana peel powders and phytic acid: flame retardancy and thermal property

Flame retardancy efficacy of phytic acid: An overview

“…PA can be combined with other natural‐based materials in order to produce bio‐based FRs for various polymers. A combination of banana peel powder (BPP) and PA, in the presence of 3‐aminopropyltriethoxysilane (KH550) was also reported to have endowed the flame retardancy on PLA 81 . KH550 was used as compatibilizer and NH 2 ‐containing source to promote interaction between components (PA, BPP, and PLA) and flame retardancy property.…”

Solid Wastes Toward Flame Retardants for Polymeric Materials: A Review

“…Similarly, chicken eggshell has also been used as a flame-retardant synergist in poly (lactic acid) (PLA), ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), and acrylic resin (Yew et al, 2015;Oualha et al, 2019;Urtekin et al, 2020). Besides, Kong et al (2020) intentionally collected banana peel powder that can serve as a char-forming agent, and then modified it with phytic acid to improve the flame-retardant performances (PA, see Figure 8). The resultant PA-modified powder (PA-B) imparts superior flame retardancy to PLA composite, of which the LOI value and UL-94 rating can reach up to 37.5% and V-0, respectively.…”

Governing effects of melt viscosity on fire performances of polylactide and its fire-retardant systems

“…As a result, PLA has been extensively used in packaging, electric and electronic, transport fields, and so forth. However, inherent high flammability significantly impedes its widespread applications in industries ( Kong et al., 2000 ). Therefore, great attempts have been made to develop fire-retardant PLA materials ( Jing et al., 2018a ; Liu et al., 2018 ; Jing et al., 2018b ; Zhang et al., 2021 ; Chen et al., 2017a ; Wen et al., 2020 ; Gao et al., 2020 ).…”