Synthesis of Carbon–Nitrogen–Phosphorous Materials with an Unprecedented High Amount of Phosphorous toward an Efficient Fire-Retardant Material

Wenyao Zhang, Jesús Barrio, Christel Gervais, Andraž Kocjan, Aiping Yu, Xin Wang, Menny Shalom

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Abstract

Phosphorus incorporation into carbon can greatly modify its chemical, electronic, and thermal stability properties. To date this has been limited to low levels of phosphorus. Now a simple, large-scale synthesis of carbon–nitrogen–phosphorus (CNP) materials is reported with tunable elemental composition, leading to excellent thermal stability to oxidation and fire-retardant properties. The synthesis consists of using monomers that are liquid at high temperatures as the reaction precursors. The molten-state stage leads to good monomer miscibility and enhanced reactivity at high temperatures and formation of CNP materials with up to 32 wt % phosphorus incorporation. The CNP composition and fire-retardant properties can be tuned by modifying the starting monomers ratio and the final calcination temperature. The CNP materials demonstrate great resistance to oxidation and excellent fire-retardant properties, with up to 90 % of the materials preserved upon heating to 800 °C in air.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9764-9769
Number of pages6
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume57
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Jul 2018

Keywords

  • carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus materials
  • fire-retardant materials
  • molten-state reactions
  • tunable elemental composition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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