A review of the synthesis, properties, and applications of 2D materials

V Shanmugam, RA Mensah, K Babu… - Particle & Particle …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the modern age of nanotechnology, the discovery of graphene has opened up the way to
study and develop of several novel 2D materials. The unique physical and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] A review of sustainable and environment-friendly flame retardants used in plastics

RA Mensah, V Shanmugam, S Narayanan, JS Renner… - Polymer Testing, 2022 - Elsevier
The progressive transition from conventional structural designs to lightweight and more
complex structures has led to the increase in the quantity of plastic materials in buildings …

Characterisation of the fire behaviour of wood: From pyrolysis to fire retardant mechanisms

RA Mensah, L Jiang, JS Renner, Q Xu - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2023 - Springer
Wood is undeniably the most useful and readily available natural raw material. However, the
susceptibility of wood products to fire is one of the crucial challenges faced in the wood …

A rapid extraction of toxic styrene from water and wastewater samples based on hydroxyethyl methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate immobilized on MWCNTs by ultra …

J Rakhtshah, H Shirkhanloo, N Esmaeili - Microchemical Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
The styrene affected on human health and caused cancer and dysfunction in the central
nervous system (CNS) and liver. So, sensitive techniques for the separation and …

Thermal kinetics and reactive mechanism of cellulose nitrate decomposition by traditional multi kinetics and modeling calculation under isothermal and non-isothermal …

X Gao, L Jiang, Q Xu, WQ Wu, RA Mensah - Industrial Crops and Products, 2020 - Elsevier
Cellulose nitrate, also known as nitrocellulose (NC), is a highly flammable energetic
cellulose derivatives formed by exposing cellulose to nitric acid, whose producing procedure …

Application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system in flammability parameter prediction

R Afriyie Mensah, J **ao, O Das, L Jiang, Q Xu… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The fire behavior of materials is usually modeled on the basis of fire physics and material
composition. However, significant strides have been made recently in applying soft …

[HTML][HTML] Testing bioplastic containing functionalised biochar

T Perroud, V Shanmugam, RA Mensah, L Jiang, Q Xu… - Polymer testing, 2022 - Elsevier
Although flame retardants are very effective in reducing the fire hazard of polymeric
materials, their presence may be detrimental to mechanical strength. Hence, in order to have …

A critical review of the methods and applications of microscale combustion calorimetry for material flammability assessment

Q Xu, RA Mensah, C **, L Jiang - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2021 - Springer
The microscale combustion calorimeter (MCC) is considered to be the most commonly used
small-scale fire experiment in material research. It was developed by Richard E. Lyon and …

Advances in solar desalination using 2D and biomass derived materials: A roadmap to sustainability

MN Mohammed, MA Zaed, IM Muhammad… - Sustainable Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Considering the worldwide water crisis, desalination is a technological remedy that is
becoming more dependent on nanocomposites for revolutionary breakthroughs. The water …

[HTML][HTML] A machine learning tool for future prediction of heat release capacity of in-situ flame retardant hybrid Mg (OH) 2-Epoxy nanocomposites

A Bifulco, A Casciello, C Imparato, S Forte, S Gaan… - Polymer Testing, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the fire behavior of a sol-gel in-situ hybrid Mg (OH) 2-epoxy nanocomposite was
investigated and an artificial neural network-based system built on a fully connected feed …