Flame Retardant Chemistry (Polymeric, Reactive, Small Molecule, Inorganic)
Test Methods and Method Development
Fire Safety Engineering – Modeling and Simulation
Fire Safety Engineering – Codes, Standards, and Regulations
Chemical Structure-Property Relationships
Fire Safety Science
Fire Protection / Flame Retardant Coatings
Bio-Based Flame Retardants and Flame Retardant Materials
Invited Speakers
Dido Agostinis: AIMPLAS, Spain
“Sustainable Phosphorus-Based Flame Retardants: Sustainable Synthesis, Structure–Property Characterisation, and Fire Performance”
Aurelio Bifulco: University of Naples, Italy
“Biochar in Fire protection: A sustainable alternative to other flame retardants and synergists”
Sandra Bischof: University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Closing the Loop: From Biomass to Innovative Flame Retardant Biocomposites & Biofuels”
Serge Bourbigot: University of Central Lille, France
“Fire-retarded polymer in space-like environment”
Sylvain Caillol: National School of Chemistry, Montpellier, France
“A Journey from Renewable Resources to Sustainable Flame-Retardant Polymers”
Federico Carosio: Polytechnic University of Turn, Italy
“Flame retardant biocomposites from polyelectrolyte coated natural fillers”
Todd Emrick: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
“Unconventional Polymer Designs for Flame-retardant Materials”
Gaelle Fontaine: University of Central Lille, France
“Elucidation of fire retardancy mechanisms: a deep dive into the gas phase”
Sabine Fuchs: Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
“Flame retardants with antioxidant properties for use in polypropylene”
Sabyasachi Gaan: EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), Switzerland
“Reactive Polyphosphonates for Sustainable, Fire-Safe Thermosets”
Michael Grosshauser: Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
“Future Proof Flame Retardancy: Designing Resilient Solutions for Changing Demands”
Jaime Grunlan: Texas A&M University, Texas, United States
“Self-Extinguishing Polyester, Polyurethane, and Nylon with Benign Polyelectrolyte Complex Coatings”
Laura Hasburgh: Forest Products Laboratory, US Dept. of Agriculture, United States
“Nanoscale X-Ray Imaging of Thermally Degraded Wood”
Jason Huczek: Southwest Research Institute, United States
“Effect of Substrates and Supports Systems on ASTM E84 Performance”
Hatsuo Ishida: Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, United States
“Intrinsic and Extremely High Flame Retardant Bio-based Polybenzoxazines: Flammability Under Various Oxygen Concentrations”
Igor Jordanov: Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia
“Sustainable Flame-Retardant Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Efficient Treatment of Natural, Synthetic, and Blended Textiles.”
Paul Joseph: Victoria University, Australia
“Ignition propensities and combustion characteristics of some ligno-cellulosic materials in the context of wildland fires”
Baljinder Kandola: University of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
“Mechanistic Comparison of Metal Stannate Synergists and Antimony Trioxide in Polymeric Halogenated Flame-Retardant Formulations”
Isaac Leventon: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
“The NIST Cone Calorimeter Database: Archiving 40 years of fire test data and Developing standard data formats and processing tools for meta-analysis of large cone calorimeter datasets”
Alexander Morgan: University of Dayton Research Institute, Ohio, United States
“Improvements in Cone Calorimeter Best Practices: Standard Reference Materials, Maintenance Issues, and A New Potential Standard Guide with ASTM”
Fernando Raffan-Montoya: University of Maryland, United States
“Characterizing flammability of fabrics with Milligram-scale Flame Calorimetry (MFC)”
Bernhard Schartel: BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing), Germany
