Jack Spergel Memorial AWARD to Dr.Guenter Beyer during the INTERNATIONAL WIRE & CABLE SYMPOSIUM 2003 (IWCS) in Philadelphia/USA related to his fundamental research results on organclays as nanofillers for nanocomposites and their function as a new class of nanostructured flame retardants for the polymers (cables, wires, polymer industry).
In november 2004 Dr. Guenter Beyer received the Jack Spergel Memorial Award for the second time (!!). IWCS awarded him for the introduction of carbon nanotubes as a flame retardant for polymers and the application for cables and wires.
He has also recieved an AWARD by the INTERNATIONAL WIRE & MACHINERY ASSOCIATION (IWMA) during the WIRE 2004 exhibition in Duesseldorf/Germany in march 2004 for his fundamental research results on fire performance of nanocomposites.
Sine 2004 he is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals "Journal of Fire Sciences" and "Trends in Applied Sciences Research". He is also mentioned in "Who is Who in Science and Engineering" in Marquist's 2006-2007 edition.
Within this journal he published in January 2005 a review with the title "Flame Retardancy of Nanocomposites - from Research to Technical Products". Here Dr. Beyer describes the commercialisation of nanocomposites in detail
You can find it at:
J. Fire Sciences, Vol. 23, 2005, No. 1 pp. 75-87
His research interests in polymer sciences are related to the flame retardancy, fire retardancy and fire science of polymers by
nanostructured flame retardants in general thus generating nanocomposites based on:
- ORGANOCLAYS
- CARBON NANOTUBES (multi-wall and single-wall)
- CARBON NANOFIBRES
- POSS
- FULLERENES
- HALLOYSITES
He has studied for first time worldwide carbon nanotubes as a new class of flame retardants for polymers. One further interest is related to Nano-ATH and Nano-MDH (Nanostructured aluminia trihydrate and nanostructured magnesium dihydroxide).
There is also a strong interest for ATH and MDH ( aluminia trihydrate and magnesium dihydroxide) as classical non halogen flame retardants for plastics (polymers) specially for Europe, which is more and more looking to such halogen free solutions.
He is interested in fire risks and fire hazards and the possibility to reduced these by flame retardants.
He has also organized an international conference on retardancy of polymers in Brussels and an international conference on reactive extrusion in Eupen.
The cone calorimeter is the most important engineering tool to determine fire hazards and fire risks and here organoclays and other nanofillers demonstrate a lot of advantages. For most of the nanocomposites there is a great advantage for peak heat release reduction and improved time to ignition.
He has also invented that only organoclay based nanocomposites will not find real technical applications and that the combination of organoclays with traditional flame retardants like ATH or MDH or brominated flame retardants generates real technical products.
There are also patents from his side on this topic !!!!
Other personal research interests are related to questions on general polymer science and engineering. Additionally he is interested in cosmology.
He is regulary working as a chair man for many international conferences mainly related to flame retardancy of polymers and cable topics (BCC-conferences on Flame Retardancy of Polymers & AMI [Applied Market Informations] cable conferences).
If you are interested to get a list of his publications on nanocomposites, flame retardancy or flame flame retardants for polymers
or a review on cosmology, please send an email :
Email to Dr. Günter Beyer
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