Jack Spergel Memorial AWARD to Dr.Guenter Beyer during
the INTERNATIONAL WIRE & CABLE SYMPOSIUM 2003 (IWCS) in Philadelphia/USA related to his fundamental research results on
organclays as nanofillers for nanocomposites and their function as a new class of nanostructured flame retardants for the
polymers (cables, wires, polymer industry).
In november 2004 Dr. Guenter Beyer received the Jack Spergel Memorial
Award for the second time (!!). IWCS awarded him for the introduction of carbon nanotubes as a flame retardant for polymers
and the application for cables and wires.
He has also recieved an AWARD by the INTERNATIONAL WIRE & MACHINERY ASSOCIATION (IWMA) during the WIRE 2004 exhibition
in Duesseldorf/Germany in march 2004 for his fundamental research results on fire performance of nanocomposites.
Sine
2004 he is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals "Journal of Fire Sciences" and "Trends in Applied Sciences
Research". He is also mentioned in "Who is Who in Science and Engineering" in Marquist's 2006-2007 edition
Within
this journal he published in January 2005 a review with the title "Flame Retardancy of Nanocomposites - from Research to Technical
Products". Here Dr. Beyer describes the commercialisation of nanocomposites in detail
You can find it at:
J.
Fire Sciences, Vol. 23, 2005, No. 1 pp. 75-87
His research interests in polymer sciences are related
to the flame retardancy , fire retardancy and fire science of polymers by nanostructured flame retardants in general thus
generating nanocomposites based on:
- ORGANOCLAYS
- CARBON NANOTUBES (Multi-wall and Single-wall)
-
CARBON NANOFIBRES
- POSS
- FULLERENES
- HALLOYSITES
He has studied for first time worldwide carbon nanotubes as
a new class of flame retardants for polymers. One further interest is related to Nano-ATH and Nano-MDH (Nanostructured aluminia
trihydrate and nanostructured magnesium dihydroxide).
There is also a strong interest for ATH and MDH ( aluminia
trihydrate and magnesium dihydroxide) as classical non halogen flame retardants for plastics (polymers) specially for Europe,
which is more and more looking to such halogen free solutions.
He is interested in fire risks and fire hazards and
the possibility to reduced these by flame retardants.
He has also organized an international conference on retardancy
of polymers in Brussels and an international conference on reactive extrusion in Eupen.
The cone calorimeter is the
most important engineering tool to determine fire hazards and fire risks and here organoclays and other nanofillers demonstrate
a lot of advantages. For most of the nanocomposites there is a great advantage for peak heat release reduction and improved
time to ignition.
He has also invented that only organoclay based nanocomposites will not find real technical
applications and that the combination of organoclays with traditional flame retardants like ATH or MDH or brominated flame
retardants generates real technical products.
There are also patents from his side on this topic !!!!
Other
personal research interests are related to questions on general polymer science and engineering. Additionally he is interested
in cosmology.
He is regulary working as a chair man for many international
conferences mainly related to flame retardancy of polymers and cable topics (BCC-conferences on Flame Retardancy
of Polymers & AMI [Applied Market Informations] cable conferences)
If you are interested to get a reprint of a his publications on nanocomposites, flame retardancy or flame flame retardants
for polymers or also a review on cosmology, please send a email to Dr. Guenter Beyer...
Here is the possibility to send me an email !!
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