Organic polymeric materials are limited in many applications because of their flammability. Thus, the demand for flame-retardant polymeric materials has steadily increased with the increasing use of polymers. Flame retardation is a process by which adding certain chemicals alters the normal degradation or combustion processes of polymers.
Some plastic materials are inherently fire retardant or smoke retardant and their fire performance is acceptable for certain applications. However, for many plastic materials, their fire resistance must be improved by incorporating
commercially available flame retardants. As expected, retardants have to improve fire resistance without excessive loss of other important performance characteristics