Towards Bio-based Flame Retardant Polymers

Flame retardancy of biobased polymers.- Biobased flame retardants.- Flame retardancy of natural fibers based composites.

Rodolphe Sonnier
Born in France in 1979, he obtained a Master degree (engineer) from ENSAIT (first school of textile engineer in France) and a PhD in material chemistry from Montpellier University in 2006 (supervisors: J-M. Lopez-Cuesta and A. Bergeret at the Ecole des Mines d'Alès). After a postdoctoral fellowship in Lyon (INSA, Laboratoire des Matériaux Macromoléculaires) supervised by Pr. Ph. Cassagnau and Dr. V. Massardier from 2006 to 2008, he became research engineer and then associate professor in the Materials Center in Ecole des Mines d'Alès from 2008 up to now. His main research field is the flame retardancy of polymers and composites. He works also on the characterization of polymer blends and the effect of ionizing radiations on polymers.He supervised (as co-supervisor) 7 PhD including three current ones. He reviewed in several journals (Polymer Degradation and Stability, Journal of Applied Polymer Science) and he has been guest editor of special issues in Materials. Scopus values: 49 publications, 218 citations by 162 documents, h-index: 8
José-Marie Lopez-CuestaBorn in Paris and 57 years old, he is engineer and PhD in applied physical chemistry (1985) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France). Full professor at Ecole des Mines d'Alès (EMA) since 2007, he works since 1990 on particulate polymer composites (micro and nanocomposites) and he is the head of the research centre of materials in EMA (C2MA) since 2009 (82 people including 30 researchers and lecturers as permanent staff). He works mainly in the areas of physical chemistry of interfaces, durability of composites, and particularly on thermal degradation, fire reaction and behavior of polymer blends containing micro- and nanocomposites. He is co-author of around 120 articles in international journals and has supervised around 30 PhD works. He is the secretary ofa thematic group of the Société Chimique de France (SCF) about the thermal degradation and fire behavior of organic