The Utility of Nanocomposites in Fire Retardancy

Nanocomposites have been shown to significantly reduce the peak heat release rate, as measured by cone calorimetry, for many polymers but they typically have no effect on the oxygen index or the UL-94 classification. In this review, we will cover what is known about the processes by which nanocomposite formation may bring this about. Montmorillonite will be the focus in this paper but attention will also be devoted to other materials, including carbon nanotubes and layered double hydroxides. A second section will be devoted to combinations of nanocomposite formation with conventional (and unconventional) fire retardants. The paper will conclude with a section attempting to forecast the future

Complete Convergence for Moving Average Process of Martingale Differences

Under some simple conditions, by using some techniques such as truncated method for random variables (see e.g., Gut (2005)) and properties of martingale differences, we studied the moving process based on martingale differences and obtained complete convergence and complete moment convergence for this moving process. Our results extend some related ones