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Bernhard Schartel is affiliated with the Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on polymers and plastics. The subfields they have contributed to include polymers and plastics, safety, risk, reliability and quality, biomaterials, mechanical engineering, and organic chemistry.

Their work covers various topics related to polymer science and fire safety, including flame retardant materials and properties, fire dynamics and safety research, polymer composites and self-healing, synthesis and properties of polymers, polymer nanocomposites and properties, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, as well as combustion and detonation processes.

Schartel has published extensively in several scientific venues, including:

  • Polymer Degradation and Stability
  • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
  • Polymers for Advanced Technologies
  • Polymers
  • Fire and Materials

Some of the recent papers affiliated with Schartel's research include:

  • Evaluation of thermoanalytical methods equipped with evolved gas analysis for the detection of microplastic in environmental samples, 2020, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
  • Flame retardant flexible polyurethane foams based on phosphorous soybean-oil polyol and expandable graphite, 2021, Polymer Degradation and Stability
  • Hyperbranched Rigid Aromatic Phosphorus-Containing Flame Retardants for Epoxy Resins, 2021, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
  • Effects of novel phosphorus-nitrogen-containing DOPO derivative salts on mechanical properties, thermal stability and flame retardancy of flexible polyurethane foam, 2020, Polymer Degradation and Stability
  • Intrinsic flame retardant phosphonate-based vitrimers as a recyclable alternative for commodity polymers in composite materials, 2020, Polymer Chemistry

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Alexander Battig
  • Holger Ruckdäschel
  • Maria Jauregui Rozo
  • S. Shyam Sunder
  • Yin Yam Chan

Best Publications

  • Development of fire-retarded materials—Interpretation of cone calorimeter data

    B. Schartel;T. R. Hull

  • Molecular Firefighting—How Modern Phosphorus Chemistry Can Help Solve the Challenge of Flame Retardancy

    Maria M. Velencoso;Alexander Battig;Jens C. Markwart;Bernhard Schartel

  • Phosphorus-based Flame Retardancy Mechanisms-Old Hat or a Starting Point for Future Development?

    Bernhard Schartel

  • Flame retardancy mechanisms of aluminium phosphinate in combination with melamine polyphosphate and zinc borate in glass-fibre reinforced polyamide 6,6

    Ulrike Braun;Bernhard Schartel;Mario A. Fichera;Christian Jäger

  • Influence of the oxidation state of phosphorus on the decomposition and fire behaviour of flame-retarded epoxy resin composites

    Ulrike Braun;Aliaksandr I. Balabanovich;Bernhard Schartel;Uta Knoll

  • Novel DOPO-based flame retardants in high-performance carbon fibre epoxy composites for aviation

    Birgit Perret;Bernhard Schartel;K. Stöß;M. Ciesielski

  • Flame retardancy through carbon nanomaterials: Carbon black, multiwall nanotubes, expanded graphite, multi-layer graphene and graphene in polypropylene

    Bettina Dittrich;Karen-Alessa Wartig;Daniel Hofmann;Rolf Mülhaupt

  • Some comments on the use of cone calorimeter data

    B. Schartel;M. Bartholmai;U. Knoll

  • Fire behaviour of polyamide 6/multiwall carbon nanotube nanocomposites

    Bernhard Schartel;P. Pötschke;Uta Knoll;M. Abdel-Goad

  • Flame-Retardancy Properties of Intumescent Ammonium Poly(Phosphate) and Mineral Filler Magnesium Hydroxide in Combination with Graphene

    Bettina Dittrich;Karen-Alessa Wartig;Rolf Mülhaupt;Bernhard Schartel

  • Flame retardancy mechanisms of triphenyl phosphate, resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate) and bisphenol A bis(diphenyl phosphate) in polycarbonate/acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene blends

    Kristin H Pawlowski;Bernhard Schartel

  • Layered silicate polymer nanocomposites: new approach or illusion for fire retardancy? Investigations of the potentials and the tasks using a model system

    Matthias Bartholmai;Bernhard Schartel

  • Some comments on the main fire retardancy mechanisms in polymer nanocomposites

    B. Schartel;M. Bartholmai;U. Knoll

  • Flame Retardancy Mechanisms of Aluminium Phosphinate in Combination with Melamine Cyanurate in Glass-Fibre-Reinforced Poly(1,4-butylene terephthalate)

    Ulrike Braun;Bernhard Schartel

  • Flame Retardant Mechanisms of Red Phosphorus and Magnesium Hydroxide in High Impact Polystyrene

    Ulrike Braun;Bernhard Schartel

  • Phosphorus polyester versus aluminium phosphinate in poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT): Flame retardancy performance and mechanisms

    S. Brehme;B. Schartel;J. Goebbels;O. Fischer

  • Flame Retardancy of Polymers: The Role of Specific Reactions in the Condensed Phase

    Bernhard Schartel;Birgit Perret;Bettina Dittrich;Michael Ciesielski

  • Pyrolysis and fire behaviour of epoxy systems containing a novel 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide-(DOPO)-based diamino hardener

    B. Schartel;U. Braun;A.I. Balabanovich;J. Artner

  • Flame retardancy mechanisms of metal phosphinates and metal phosphinates in combination with melamine cyanurate in glass‐fiber reinforced poly(1,4‐butylene terephthalate): the influence of metal cation

    Ulrike Braun;Horst Bahr;Heinz Sturm;Bernhard Schartel

  • Fire retardancy of polypropylene/flax blends

    B. Schartel;U. Braun;U. Schwarz;S. Reinemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Altstädt
Volker Altstädt University of Bayreuth
Frederik R. Wurm
Frederik R. Wurm University of Twente
Joachim H. Wendorff
Joachim H. Wendorff Philipp University of Marburg
Rolf Mülhaupt
Rolf Mülhaupt University of Freiburg
Domenico Acierno
Domenico Acierno University of Naples Federico II
Andreas Greiner
Andreas Greiner University of Bayreuth
Hartmut Komber
Hartmut Komber Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Petra Pötschke
Petra Pötschke Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Charles A. Wilkie
Charles A. Wilkie Marquette University
Holger Militz
Holger Militz University of Göttingen

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