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Projects/Programs

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Advanced Gas-Phase Fire Retardants Project

Completed
This project provides insights into the role of particle formation in limiting the effectiveness of gas-phase, phosphorus-based fire retardants when added to polymers.

Functional Barriers for Low-Flammability Products

Ongoing
This project enables low-flammability products without flame retardants by providing methods to assess functional barriers, advancing their performance, and exploring their use in multi-layer products for critical applications.

Material Flammability Characterization

Ongoing
This project develops a database that includes tools, measurement data, material properties, and validation data to enable quantitative prediction of material flammability behavior, such as ignition, steady burning, and fire growth.

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Ongoing
Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) constitute a family of compounds that are distinguished by partial or complete fluorination of alkyl hydrocarbons. Dubbed “forever chemicals”, the unique chemistry of PFAS imparts a high level of stability, making the compounds resistant to

Public Health Risks to First Responders

Ongoing
This project advances tools and methods to analyze per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighter gear and workplaces, supporting the development of standards, policies, and best practices to reduce firefighter PFAS exposure.

Reduced Ignition and Flame Spread with Nano-Engineered Foam Project

Completed
By 2015, this project aims to develop measurement science for (1) designing low-fire hazard soft furnishings using low-heat release, cost-effective, EHS-compliant nanoparticle fire retardant foam, (2) assessing the EHS attributes of nanoparticle fire retardants for polymer systems, and (3) creating a reference polyurethane foam with reproducible smoldering mass loss.