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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2026

Boron-based fire retardancy for natural polymeric materials.

Xuan Wang, Sheldon Q Shi

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xuan WangMechanical Engineering Department, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States.
Sheldon Q ShiMechanical Engineering Department, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The shift from fossil resources to natural polymers as the building blocks of a global bioeconomy is hampered by the intrinsic flammability of these bio-derived materials. In this paper, the recent advances in boron-based fire retardancy of natural materials are reviewed, highlighting the transition from macro-scale salt impregnation to molecular-level engineering of boron chemistry. Boron compounds act as a dual Lewis acid catalyst for dehydration and subsequent char formation, and as a glassy physical barrier to slow down the release of fuel and the diffusion of oxygen. The boron chemistry in the context of the physical constraints dictated by the natural material is analyzed. In solid wood and bamboo, the challenge is to use

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bio-compositesboron-based fire retardancychar formationlignocellulosenatural polymers

Identifiers

PMID41799274
PMCPMC12961190

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