The treatment has the potential to mitigate the spread and damage of fires.
Wildfires have devastated communities globally in recent years, urging researchers to continue their pursuit of finding new ways to help protect lives and property.
Researchers, led by a Texas A&M University professor, have created a coating treatment with the potential to mitigate the spread and damage of fire without many of the drawbacks typically associated with fire retardant solutions.
Leading the team is principal investigator Jaime Grunlan, Leland T. Jordan ’29 Chair Professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his former graduate student Thomas Kolibaba, who is currently a nuclear regulatory commission postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
“If the pandemic hadn’t happened, fire would have been a top story this past couple of years due to major fires in places like California and Australia,” Grunlan said.
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