Wood is an established and versatile construction material, used to build everything from high-rises and airports to apartment buildings. It also, however, is not immune to catching fire. A new ...

While residential fires have declined over the recent decades, the uncontrollable blazes can still wreak havoc, as the recent fire in a Bronx apartment building demonstrated. Many fire-resistant ...

A spray- or brush-applied fire retardant coating made from nanocellulose is well suited for improving the fire properties of wood-based materials. It reduces the access of oxygen to the surface, thus ...

SINGAPORE - A coating developed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) can prevent wood from catching fire. At NTU on Thursday (Aug 18), a researcher showed how it works. Two panels ...

Dublin, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Fire-resistant Coatings Market by Type (Intumescent Coatings, Cementitious Coatings), Technology (Solvent-borne, Water ...

An invisible coating that can “fireproof” wood has been invented by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). With the popularity of mass engineered timber growing in ...

(Nanowerk News) A spray- or brush-applied fire retardant coating made from nanocellulose is well suited for improving the fire properties of wood-based materials. It reduces the access of oxygen to ...

On one hand, the main objective of the Refugi project is to develop phosphorus-based flame retardants using mechanochemical processes, representing a step toward more environmentally friendly methods.

Engineers have created a new wood that could change what buildings are made of and takes just a few hours to make. Scientists from Chinese institutions developed the new wood that won't catch fire, ...

A coating developed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) can prevent wood from catching fire. At NTU yesterday, a researcher showed how it works. Two panels of spruce wood were ...

A group of researchers from China and Australia has developed a promising fire-retardant coating inspired by the properties of lava. Made of metallic and glassy oxygen-containing compounds, lava is ...