Meet the editor

Yanfei Xu joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst as an assistant professor in 2019. She became an adjunct assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department in the fall of 2020. Before joining UMass, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining MIT, she passion-

ately pursued GENIUS research funded by the European Commission and secured Marie-Curie Fellowships with major European institutions and companies. Dr. Xu received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Nankai University, China.

Contents

*by Yanfei Xu*

Approaches

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 89** Flame Retardant Treatments of Nylon Textiles: A Shift towards Eco-Friendly

Introductory Chapter: Flame Retardant and Thermally Insulating Polymers

Nanoscale Configuration of Clay-Interlayer Chemistry: A Precursor

Development of Halogen Free Sustainable Polybenzoxazine Matrices

Plant Uptake, Translocation and Metabolism of PBDEs in Plants *by Daniel Dobslaw, Bertram Kuch, Christine Woiski and Martina Kiel*

*by Chanchal Kumar Kundu, Zhiwei Li, Lei Song and Yuan Hu*

to Enhancing Flame Retardant Properties *by Sanjiv Sonkaria and Hyun Joong Kim*

*and Muthukaruppan Alagar*

and Composites for Flame Retardant Applications *by Subramani Devaraju, Krishnamoorthy Krishnadevi* 
